Board Meeting 2011-11-10

This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of November 2011 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

Agenda

 * Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2011-10-05
 * Appoint secretary
 * Action items from last meeting
 * mpg: remove last line from codesprint guidelines [done]
 * Peter: make mission text same on all pages
 * Jeff/Tim: draft RCMRD MOU
 * Peter: look into conf call options
 * All: review Tyler's task list and prioritize, mark for budget if outsourcing is the option
 * (Motion to) accept Jody Garnett as new Incubation Committee chair replacing Daniel Morissette
 * (Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter OSGeo-NA
 * Discuss how to proceed with FOSS4G 2012 in Beijing.
 * Geospatial Media offer to join organizing the Open Source track at Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam (see mail)
 * Review, simplify and harmonize OSGeo Bylaws, guidelines and OSGeo Constitution
 * Review What's_Not_Working and What's Working (last edits from 2006) and update or delete (not sure whether we need this pages).
 * Task WebCom (if still alive) with web site redesign, see also http://www3.osgeo.org/ and WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus
 * Initial contact point for sponsorship requests and follow-ups.
 * please add items

Minutes

 * logistics
 * detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-11-03.log
 * Attending:
 * Regrets:
 * Absent:
 * Chair:
 * Scribe:

Motions

 * 1) approval of previous meeting's minutes (m/ Daniel, 2/ Jeff, all +1)
 * 2) appoint mpg as secretary (m/ Daniel, 2/ Peter, all +1)
 * 3) close meeting (m/ Frank, 2/ mpg, all +1)