Board Meeting 2010-04-08

This board meeting is scheduled for the 1st of April 2010 at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).

Agenda

 * Adopt previous minutes
 * Officers discussion
 * OSGeo has been invited to formally appear as an Institutional Partner at the World Map Forum 2011. Chance to organize speakers, potentially conduct workshops and/or code sprints, etc.
 * Sponsorship: Arnulf reports from experience with FOSS4G 2010 preparation. Discussion how to combine and reuse the FOSS4G efforts with general OSGeo sponsorship
 * Motion to cover expenses for Jeff McKenna's recent Vietnam chapter trip
 * Director updates
 * Update from Tyler - follow up questions.
 * Discuss role of events in OSGeo. FOSS4G is now our primary fundraiser (higher return than highest sponsor).  Can/should we do more events and focus on them for fundraising?

Minutes
Complete IRC logs are here, start at 6h00 log server time.

Action Summary

 * 1) '''MOTION: