Board Meeting 2012-04-19

This board meeting is scheduled for the 19th of April 2012 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

 * Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-03-22
 * Appoint secretary
 * Action items from last meeting
 * mpg to do inventory of committees and local chapters (carried over from previous meeting)
 * Daniel to resolve 'c3 vs. 'c6 issue
 * Jo to start investigating the ELOgeo importation process
 * Daniel to decide what to do about QuickBooks issue
 * mpg to get a plan for DC F2F meeting / (edited: report from meeting?)
 * kick-starting the Marketing discussion (Arnulf attempted to do something here)
 * a Motion: Confirm Cameron Shorter as interim Chair of the Marketing Committee (Arnulf)
 * update from Frank on Beijing FOSS4G conference
 * Consider recommendation for GEOS to graduate incubation with Sandro Santilli as VP, GEOS.
 * Funding request for the GRASS GIS Community Sprint in May 2012 (see email)
 * ambassador to Eclipse WG meeting?
 * Charter Membership (clean out, update)
 * Preparation for elections in July (Arnulf)
 * Confirm next meeting time and date Board Meeting 2012-05-10
 * please add items

Minutes

 * logistics
 * detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-04-19.log
 * Attending: dmorissette (Daniel Morissette), mpg (Michael Gerlek), FrankW (Frank Warmerdam), seven (Arnulf Christl), pmbatty (Peter Batty), tschaub (Tim Schaub), archaeogeek joined later (Jo Cook)
 * Absent: Mark Lucas
 * Chair: Tim Schaub
 * Scribe: Arnulf Christl

Assigned Tasks

 * 1) Peter Batty and Jo Cook to work on getting FOSS4G 2011 material online
 * 2) Arnulf to start thread on policy for FOSS4G 2012 on board list.
 * 3) Arnulf to carry over items that were not addressed during the meeting.

Motions

 * 1) [19:14] MOTION: adopt minutes of 2012-03-22 meeting. Tim 1st, Arnulf 2nd, all in favor.
 * 2) [19:33] MOTION: Confirm Cameron Shorter as interim Chair of the Marketing Committee. Arnulf 1st, Peter 2nd, all in favor.
 * 3) [19:45] MOTION: Confirm incubation committee recommendation that GEOS graduate incubation. Frank 1st, Arnulf 2nd, all in favor.
 * 4) [19:56] MOTION: Provide € 1000 for the GRASS Community sprint in Prague.  Arnulf 1st; Frank 2nd;  Tim, Jo, mpg, pmbatty +1; Daniel +0