Board Meeting 2006 05 26

The 11th board meeting has been re-scheduled to 9th of Jun at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

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Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary
 * Review and approve prior meeting minutes
 * Discuss and adopt Committee Guidelines
 * Discuss and adopt OSGEO:Copyrights for this Wiki
 * Discuss formation of Local Chapters and China OSGeo request
 * Discuss OSGeo appearance at the Intergeo 2006 exhibition
 * Discuss and adopt how to Operate OSGeo Booth
 * Discuss how to promote our projects

Minutes
MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION A Delaware non-stock corporation.

On June 9th, 2006, at 8:00 am Pacific time, pursuant to notice duly given, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (the "Foundation" or "OSGeo") held a meeting by teleconference.

Present at the meeting were the following members of the Board: Gary Lang, Frank Warmerdam, Chris Holmes, Arnulf Christl, Dave McIlhagga, and Markus Neteler. Venkatesh Raghavan, Jo Walsh and Mark Lucas did not attend the meeting. Also present at the request of the Board was Rich Steele, Secretary and Laura Rivera. All participants on the call indicated that they could hear one another. Additionally, Internet Relay Chat was used for backup purposes (#osgeo on irc.freenode.net). Mr. Holmes was appointed chairperson of the meeting. Finding a quorum present, Mr. Holmes called the meeting to order. Frank Warmerdam was appointed secretary of the meeting.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The Board first approved by general consent the minutes of the meeting held on May 19th, 2006.

OFFICER SPENDING LIMITS

Frank Warmerdam made a motion, subsequently approved to put into place the following spending limits for officers of the foundation. Amounts of up to $500 USD can be committed by any officer. Amounts of up to $10000 USD can be committed by agreement of any officer and the treasurer. Amounts over $10000 USD must be approved by the board as a whole.

COMMITTEE GUIDELINES

Frank Warmerdam made a motion, subsequently approved to adopt the Committee Guidelines document in the wiki.

WIKI LICENSING

Frank Warmerdam made a motion, subsequently approved to transition the Wiki to use of the same Creative Commons license as is used on the web site. Rich Steele is to work with Arnulf Christl and Daniel Brookshier to get permission from wiki contributors, and to prepare the correct license text for the wiki.

LOCAL CHAPTERS

Further work on guidelines for local chapters was deferred to the face to face meetings in San Rafael.

PROMOTION AND INTERGEO

Further discussion of promotional efforts, and Intergeo in particular were deferred to the face to face meetings in San Rafael.

FACE TO FACE MEETING

It was decided to meet at the Autodesk offices on June 11th at 10:00am for face to face meetings.

ADJOURNMENT