Board Meeting 2013-07-11

This board meeting is scheduled for the 11th of July 2013 at 12.00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-06-13
 * Charter/Board elections update; Decision on how many new Charter Members are to be added (as per our by laws this year between 14 and 48)
 * support for QGIS HackFest (sept 12-16) email
 * asking for second installment: 750 USD
 * OSGeo Booth at Nottingham
 * Offer of booth from LOC; do we accept?
 * booth size needed?
 * Who to manage booth duty volunteers
 * possibly Jeff to setup wiki and distribute call-for-volunteers
 * OSGeo servers security issues
 * OSGeo Incubation Report 2013 Q2 IncCom_Report22 (ie chair reporting periodically - User:Jive )
 * Process stalled for long-term projects, recommend allowing projects to retire from incubation (and invite them to reapply when ready)
 * Changes needed to Elections process
 * documented at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category_talk:Elections
 * likely needs to be put on hold until after elections, but, important to followup later
 * Need to update bylaws http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
 * possible half-day virtual meeting to go through necessary changes?
 * suggestion by AdrianC: Board could produce an authoritative list of all the wiki pages considered to be approved amendments to the bylaws
 * Repairing the OSGeo Service Providers page
 * volunteers/funding specialists/something
 * UPDATE: IanEdwards joining WebCom to help with Drupal
 * add your items here
 * Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
 * Schedule next meeting

Minutes

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 * Presiding:


 * Scribing: