Board Meeting 2011-10-05

This board meeting is scheduled for the 6th of October 2011 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

Agenda

 * Review past minutes: Face to Face Meeting Denver 2011
 * Action items from last meeting
 * Board meetings
 * Find a regular day and time for board meetings (can also be agreed via mail up front).
 * Evaluate options for IRC or voice conf and provider, or go for a combination
 * ED tasks transfer (link forthcoming)
 * Provide guidance to the Conference Committee wrt FOSS4G Beijing and potentially conflicting regional events
 * Results from the foss4g 2011 attendee survey (Batty?)
 * North American regional conference for 2012
 * Discussion to fund Jeff for conference management
 * Open session regarding the future style of the organization (mpg's 3 suggestions)
 * Three roles needed (to be filled by 1 person, or more?)
 * Administrative tasks
 * Project work (SAC, code sprints, etc.)
 * ED / ambassador:
 * Outreach
 * Fundraising
 * Report on the NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) open source initiative (Lucas)


 * please add items

Minutes

 * Detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-10-06.log
 * Attending: ...
 * Regrets: ...
 * Chair: Arnulf
 * Scribe: ...

Motions

 * 1) MOTION: