Board Meeting 2015-10-15

This board meeting is scheduled for the 15th of October 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 2015-08-13
 * brief treasurer report (including sponsors list)
 * naming a president, treasurer, secretary for 2015/2016
 * On behalf of the OSGeo Foundation, the Board express deep sympathies and condolences to Frank Wamerdam, Former President of OSGeo
 * Cover travel expenses for President to attend OpenGIS conference in Moscow http://gisconf.ru/
 * Cover costs of the Build a Drone Workshop at FOSS4G-Seoul
 * discuss working with the UN-GIS team. Including an invite to join a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
 * pick 2 days for a Board face-to-face meeting (or "Board Sprint") to outline goals and vision for the foundation
 * Setup private file sharing system for the Board (paid DropBox accounts, or other options) see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_infrastructure and https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1547
 * clarify Geo4all position within OSGeo and cancel the Edu-Committe as it is non active and already replaced by geo4all (see osgeo main page) - rather than canceling the vote should be about a transition from Edu-committee to geo4all - it will take some time and effort to make sure the infrastructure is not lost and it is properly labeled
 * ISPRS_2016 coordination
 * discuss possibility of OSGeo software signing certificates [Anita] (i.e. OSX seems to not allow installation of unsigned software by default --> user needs to change configuration --> signed software would appear more professional. On the QGIS mailing list, we were discussing that we could have a QGIS.org certificate but since QGIS depends on so many other OSGeo tools - which would also have to be signed - it might be more appropriate to have an OSGeo certificate.)
 * add your items here

Minutes

 * Attending: Mike, Maxi,, Jeff, Anita, Venka, Sanghee, Jody, Helena, Vasile, Jachym (Secretary)
 * Presiding: Jeff
 * Scribing: Vasile
 * Approved last minute;
 * Tresurer report: Jeff and Mike are currently working with PayPal to properly transfer the Canadian PayPal account to a new US one; For late 2014 - 2015 we only had one sponsor of OSGeo and that was Alan Moore of ThinkWare that was an Associate Sponsor - a sponsor clean up is required; We are in the process on finalizing our 2014 IRS filing; CT Corp was paid for the next year OSGeo Incorporation;
 * Mike, Jachym and Jeff are willing to continue in their current positions as treasurer, secretary and president;
 * OSGeo will be represented by Jeff at the OpenGIS conference in Moscow (http://gisconf.ru/);
 * OSGeo should create a working group dedicated to work with the UN-GIS team;
 * The board members should pick 2 days for a Board face-to-face meeting (or "Board Sprint");
 * OSGeos Education and Curriculum Effort is no longer active and should be replaced by the GeoForAll initiative. Further discussions and clarifications on the mailing list are required;
 * Further discussions on the ML are also required for the ISPRS_2016 coordination;
 * We will try to limit the IRC meetings to 1 hour. The board should consider bimonthly meetings in the future.

Full, raw minutes notes

 * IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-10-15.log