Board Meeting 2013-10-17

This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of October 2013 at on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-08-15
 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-09-20


 * Discuss FOSS4G LOC vs OSGeo involvement
 * Need to setup processes for managing FOSS4G
 * Template Contract with PCO
 * Non-profit aspects (taxes vs PCO, extending nonprofit status to LOC, etc.)
 * See email from PDX committee


 * Incubation committee
 * IncCom_Report23
 * recommends Marble GIS for graduation (see Marble_Graduation_Checklist), project officer will be Torsten Rahn, press release draft: Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation


 * Approve Code_Sprint_Guidelines - cfr. aghisla


 * Make a formal motion about potential inactive Charter members
 * Proposal: Current OSGeo Charter members who have not voted in the last two board elections will be invited (via email) to move from the current OSGeo-Charter member list to a Past OSGeo Charter Members list, and will loose their voting rights. These emailed members may either respond with a commitment to vote in future board elections, or be moved. Not responding within 3 weeks would result in being moved.


 * Discuss possibility of extended Board meeting re: OSGeo priorities
 * Discuss OSGeo vision, mission, objectives, policies updates
 * Possible business-dev position to manage sponsor relations
 * Setup one or more working groups?
 * SAC issues


 * Discuss OSGeo involvement with partner organizations:
 * Building OSGeo-OGC synergies in Geospatial Education (following up discussions at FOSS4G 2013)
 * OGC, LocationTech, OSGeo Sponsors, (others?)
 * Need champions for each one?


 * OSGeo servers infrastructure for FOSS4G-E conference (web server, mailing lists, several mail addresses).
 * Is it common, what about other teams, how did they do it?
 * Is it required, does OSGeo want to provide such infrastructure?


 * add your items here


 * Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
 * Schedule next meeting

Deferred items from last meeting (please move up selected items)



Minutes

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 * Presiding:


 * Scribing:

Motions

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Full, raw minutes notes

 * Full IRC log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2013-10-17.log


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