Board Meeting 2010-04-08

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.

Action Summary

 * 1) '''MOTION: