Board Meeting 2007 11 02

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of November at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

 * Appoint meeting secretary
 * Review and approve Twenty Eighth Board Meeting, and Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
 * Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
 * Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
 * Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
 * Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
 * Approve migration of the GEOS project to OSGeo infrastructure.
 * Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).
 * Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
 * Review and approve OSGeo 2008 Budget (as recommended by Finance Committee)
 * Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be included in the RFP.
 * Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts