Board Meeting 2010-04-08
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This board meeting is scheduled for the 8th of April 2010 at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).
Was postponed from April 1st
Agenda
- Adopt previous minutes
- Officers discussion
- OSGeo has been invited to formally appear as an Institutional Partner at the World Map Forum 2011. Chance to organize speakers, potentially conduct workshops and/or code sprints, etc.
- Formation of Vietnam OSGeo Local Chapter
- Formation of California chapter - see email and its attachment
- The Sénégal OSGeo Chapter in formation plans for a conference in June. They ask whether they can call it "OSGeo@Dakar".
- Director updates
- http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/en/ Conference in Poland (Arnulf)
- Thoughts on funding and payment for "OSGeo ambassador" activities (Arnulf)
- OSGeo co-organizes an Open Source mashup/workshop prior to the INSPIRE conference in Krakow/Cracow in June (Arnulf)
- Discuss expenses for Jeff McKenna's recent Vietnam chapter trip
- Update from Tyler - follow up questions.
- Sponsorship: Arnulf reports from experience with FOSS4G 2010 preparation. Discussion how to combine and reuse the FOSS4G efforts with general OSGeo
- Discuss role of events in OSGeo. FOSS4G is now our primary fundraiser (higher return than highest sponsor). Can/should we do more events and focus on them for fundraising? FOSS4G is an OSGeo brand that makes revenue.
- Funding et Sponsorship Committee reloaded
Minutes
Complete IRC logs are here, start at 7h00 log server time. Meeting held on Skype voice, all minutes transcribed to IRC.
Action Summary
- MOTION: Jeff motions, Arnulf seconded, motion to officially recognize Vietnam chapter - all were in favour
- MOTION: Arnulf moves, Markus seconded, to officially recognize California local chapter - all were in favour
- MOTION: Arnulf moved, Chris seconded, to officially recognize Senegal chapter - all were in favour
- MOTION: Chris moved to reimburse Jeff for up to $1,600 for travel expenses helping support starting of Vietnam, seconded by Frank all were in favour, Jeff abstained from voting
- TODO: Tyler to distribute sponsorship packages to all directors
Detailed Minutes
07:08:26 BOARD MEETING starts
- Attending: Ravi, Geoff, Jeff, Frank, Arnulf, Chris, Markus, Ari
- Regrets: Howard
- Frank moves to adopt previous minutes, Arnulf seconded, all were in favour
- Officers discussion - defer to list for communication
- Map World Forum: OSGeo has been invited to formally appear as an Institutional Partner at the World Map Forum 2011. Chance to organize speakers, potentially conduct workshops and/or code sprints, etc.
- discussion about what an 'institutional partner' is and availability
- Arnulf to forward info to marketing committee
- Formation of Vietnam OSGeo Local Chapter
- MOTION: Jeff motions, Arnulf seconded, motion to officially recognize Vietnam chapter, all were in favour
- Formation of California chapter - see email and its attachment...
- MOTION: Arnulf moves, Markus seconded, to officially recognize California local chapter - all were in favour
- Senegal OSGeo Chapter in formation plans for a conference in June. They ask whether they can call it "OSGeo@Dakar".
- MOTION: Arnulf moved, Chris seconded, to officially recognize Senegal chapter - all were in favour
- Director updates
- http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/en/ Conference in Poland ( Arnulf ) 2nd Conference GEODESY AND GEOINFORMATION SCIENCE - NEW TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES ( at www.gislab.up.wroc.pl )
- Thoughts on funding and payment for "OSGeo ambassador" activities ( Arnulf )
- Question of marketing committee thoughts on approach
- question of whether it's "marketing" or "board" activity/concept
- discusison of making it a general programme for anyone, not just directors or committees
- discussing making supporting local chapters a priority for the board
- Discuss expenses for Jeff McKenna's recent Vietnam chapter trip
- two topics: specific request, and future policy for this type of request/activity
- MOTION: Chris moved to reimburse Jeff for up to $1,600 for travel expenses helping support starting of Vietnam, seconded by Frank all were in favour, Jeff abstained from voting
- Tyler gave various updates
- TODO: Tyler to distribute sponsorship packages to all directors
- Arnulf updated on FOSS4G potential sponsor list he and Lorenzo compiled, possibility to extend to use with board/sponsorship committee
- general discussion about potential sponsors for osgeo
- CRM requirements to keep track of who has contacted who
- discussed role of board in fundraising
- Arnulf, Frank motioned to close the meeting, all were in favour
- Next meeting - May 6th
08:07:52 Meeting closed