Board Meeting 2015-05-21

This board meeting is scheduled for the 21st of May 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Current items

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-04-09
 * brief treasurer report
 * Clarify rules on letters of support (Protocol for requesting letter of support)
 * FOSS4G 2015 update
 * FOSS4G 2016 update
 * Request for sponsorship for "Open Source Comes to Campus" - Algeria, October 2015. See request to the Board list
 * Travel etc. expenses discussion for FOSS4G 2016 going to 2015 and for next years
 * Finalize OSGeo Budget 2015
 * Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)

Items from past meetings

 * Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
 * Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
 * Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
 * Marketing committee without a chair
 * Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
 * Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron
 * OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
 * [UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project

Minutes

 * Attending:
 * Presiding:
 * Scribing:

Also attended:

Assigned Tasks

 * [UNASSIGNED]

Motions (confirmed by email)
See email thread on the Board list.

Full, raw minutes notes

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