Board Meeting 2012-08-09
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This board meeting is scheduled for the 9th of August 2012 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.
Agenda
- Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-07-12
- Appoint secretary
- Action items from last and previous meetings
- Ongoing: Arnulf to set up, schedule and run 2012 elections
- Peter Batty and Jo Cook to work on getting FOSS4G 2011 material online - discussions under way, need to get some (small) volunteer effort to pull things together
- mpg to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting)
- Clean out and update Charter Membership (carried over from previous meeting again)
- Jo report from the ELOgeo importation process
- Daniel to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
- Daniel to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
- September (new board): Decide on location for AGM, Sol Katz, F2F board meeting
- Finances:
- See: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av9Xf1ehZXz-dG5zYnVmSnJRWk5yTExDYmtpTTFSNXc
- Review/discuss budget/finances YTD info as of 2012-07-31
- Motion to approve new revised budget as of 2012-08-07 ?
- Continue dialog on how to associate with Eclipse (see board list mail from Jo)
- PDX-OSGeo local chapter formal recognition, some notes on what has been done
- Finalize confirmation of board voting procedure - left over from a couple years ago - Frank to summarize.
- Clarify that the rights granted to code contributors who signed the GeoTools Copyright Assignment. Specifically, does it include the right to distribute their own work under a different OSI approved license?
- Related: Dual License Request (withdrawn) - proposal to dual-license as per GeoTools Code Contribution Agreement and OSGeo by-laws
- Related: Apache Software Grant recommended on sis-dev
- How to deal with alleged impartiality and favoritism of OSGeo, see mail threads around "Asking permission for re-licensing..." and follow-ups
- Identifying when a committee has been put in situation of Judge and Party (see the geotools-admin thread)
- Identifying when a committee or process is considered biased osgeo-discuss thread
- Acknowledge resignations of Charter members:
- Jason Birch
- Kazunori Noda
- FOSS4G North America 2013 Minneapolis Request for OSGeo to act as Financial Backstop
- please add items
- Confirm next meeting time and date Board Meeting 2012-xx-xx
Minutes
- logistics
- detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-08-09.log
- Attending: seven mpg pmbatty dmorissette tschaub
- Absent with regrets: jo frankw
- Missing: mark
- Chair: seven
- Secretary: mpg
Assigned Tasks
- Peter to produce a brief final report to the OSGeo membership on FOSS4G 2011 (financial, etc)
- Arnulf to set up, schedule and run 2012 elections
- mpg to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting)
- Jo report from the ELOgeo importation process
- Daniel to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
- Daniel to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
- September (new board): Decide on location for AGM, Sol Katz, F2F board meeting
- Daniel: draft a 2013 budget in the coming weeks based on same expenses and 0 FOSS4G revenues if that helps
Motions
- approve minutes from July meeting - 1/mpg, 2/tschaub, all +1
- motion to accept PDX as an official OSGeo Local Chapter - 1/seven, 2/mpg, all +1
- Motion: "The board understands that it was the intention of the GeoTools Contributor Agreement to grant the Contributor right to relicense their Submission"
- motion to ack the resignation of Noda, Birch, and also Eduardo Patto Kanegae - 1/mpg, 2/seven, all +1
- Motion: The board agrees in principle to work towards financial support of the FOSS4GNA regional event, with details to be sorted out before final approval of the support - 1/seven, 2/dmorissette, all +1
Notes
17:08 start
- motion: approve minutes from July meeting
- 1/mpg, 2/tschaub, all +1
- action items from previous meeting
- Peter to produce a brief final report to the OSGeo membership on FOSS4G 2011 (financial, etc)
- will get done in August
- statement by Arnulf re: Beijing cancellation
- done
- Arnulf to set up, schedule and run 2012 elections
- underway now
- mpg to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting)
- almost complete, waiting for election to finish
- Jo report from the ELOgeo importation process
- carry over, Jo not here
- Daniel to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
- carry over
- Daniel to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
- carry over
- September (new board): Decide on location for AGM, Sol Katz, F2F board meeting
- carry over (to new board)
- Peter to produce a brief final report to the OSGeo membership on FOSS4G 2011 (financial, etc)
17:21
- Finances
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av9Xf1ehZXz-dG5zYnVmSnJRWk5yTExDYmtpTTFSNXc
- key points:
- Denver balance ended up being slightly lower than budgetted 50k$ at 37,420
- Expenses, the main highlight is I'd like to add/vote a budget of 5k$ for code sprint support since we agreed to support two code sprints so far but that was not in the budget
- pmbatty: I have a bit of a concern that we will get no conference revenue until end of 2013 (well maybe some from FOSS4G NA sooner); I think we will have to cut out expenditure quite a bit in 2013 unless we get some extra revenue from somewhere, or am I missing something?
- dmorissette: If we keep going this way we should be able to go through 2013, but our bank balance will go down by ~40-50k$
- tschaub: I'm in favor of adding sprint budget and reducing ambassador expenses
- action item for Daniel: draft a 2013 budget in the coming weeks based on same expenses and 0 FOSS4G revenues if that helps
- Continue dialog on how to associate with Eclipse (see board list mail from Jo)
- postpone/carry over, needs more on mailing list
- PDX-OSGeo local chapter formal recognition
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PDX_OSGEO_Local_Chapter_Recognition
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Pdx
- motion to accept PDX as an official OSGeo Local Chapter - 1/seven, 2/mpg, all +1
- Finalize confirmation of board voting procedure - left over from a couple years ago - Frank to summarize.
- Frank not here, needs more discussions
17:39
- Clarify that the rights granted to code contributors who signed the GeoTools Copyright Assignment. Specifically, does it include the right to distribute their own work under a different OSI approved license?
- (discussion...)
- Motion: "The board understands that it was the intention of the GeoTools Contributor Agreement to grant the Contributor right to relicense their Submission"
- /note by mpg: doesn't appear this was formally voted on, so will be done by email]
18:04
- motion to ack the resignation of Noda, Birch, and also Eduardo Patto Kanegae
- 1/mpg, 2/seven, all +1
- FOSS4GNA
- dmorissette: Not sure we can sort out the FOSS4GNA question completely today… we can agree in principle, but the details need to be sorted out in my opinion … this will set a precedent for other regional events, we need to keep that in minid and set some rules that will be applicable more broadly
- Motion: The board agrees in principle to work towards financial support of the FOSS4GNA regional event, with details to be sorted out before final approval of the support
- 1/seven, 2/dmorissette, all +1