Board Meeting 2006 06 30

The 13th board meeting has been scheduled for the 30th 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
 * Review and approve Proposed Membership Rules.
 * Review and approve Local Chapter Guidelines (still being drafted).
 * Review draft budget from face to face meetings, and hopefully approve. (see f2f minutes) and Budget 2006-2007
 * Consider budget/timescale for hiring an OSGeo Executive Director

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

On Jun 23, 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. The meeting lasted 40 minutes.

Present at the meeting were the following members of the Board: Frank Warmerdam, Mark Lucas, DaveMcIlhagga, Jo Walsh, Chris Holmes, Arnulf Christl, Gary Lang, and Markus Neteler. Also present at the request of the Board were Andrew Kelly and Auke Jildera of the Community Management team. 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. Warmerdam was appointed chairperson of the meeting. Finding a quorum present, Mr. Warmerdam called the meeting to order. Jo Walsh was appointed secretary of the meeting.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The Board first approved by general consent the minutes of the meeting held on 23rd June 2006.

work in progress

AGENDA ITEMS


 * Motion to adopt Proposed Membership Rules

Approved


 * Motion to adopt Local Chapter Guidelines

These still have not been edited into a form where they can be finalised. Arnulf volunteers to overhaul the Guidelines and create a more definite document which can be sent round for discussion before the next Board meeting.


 * Motion to review and approve Budget 2006-2007

Frank has some concerns that the minimum end of the range is higher than was discussed in the F2F meeting, Chris notes that some items easier to "sell" to sponsors than others and this may affect priorities. e.g. binary stack directly sponsorted, run as a project frank made a great budget - it doesnt completely effect the f2f consideration? the minimum number isn't as small in the range gary like number - thinks is good - chris and frank doubt it OTT - some consideration as to 'negotiating' having this number in the clear

markus joins call

frank moves to adopt budget, chris+1 everyone approves hooray!


 * Discussion of timescale / options for hiring an Executive Director

DM points out that one needs to spend money to make it

mlucas leaves call so this involves fundraising for 3 months salary minimum FrankW would like to make announcement by Sept.

DISCUSSION

What are priorities for FunCom to raise for frank wonders about arnulf's priorities on board-priv list - groups to approach funcom should be dealing with this - has a meeting this Thurs. issues re. public/private discussions - funcom needs a priv list? - frank in favour of largely-private conduct @sometimes we have to be closed@ arnulf gary feedback from recent conf. +ve noises DM talks about canadian gov people -NRCAN - data sharing + curriculum dev AOB?

gary motions to close, arnulf +1