Board Meeting 2013-01-17

This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of January 2013 at 20.00 UTC 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 2012-12-13
 * Next Face-to-Face Board meeting
 * could be full day virtual meeting instead
 * Next AGM
 * possibly at FOSS4G Nottingham
 * FOSS4G updates
 * Nottingham (sept)
 * Minneapolis (may)
 * Buenos Aires (april)
 * Tokyo/Osaka (nov)
 * Bucharest (may)
 * MoU with universities - new entries and candidates (summary from Anne)
 * please add items
 * Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
 * Schedule next meeting

Minutes

 * Logs: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2013-01-17.log
 * Meeting Report: TO BE SEND
 * Chair: jmckenna
 * Attending: jachym, FrankW, jmckenna, aghisla, mlucas

Topics

 * Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-12-13
 * MOTION: aghisla moves to accept minutes, mlucas seconds. Carried
 * Face-to-Face Board meeting
 * Meeting will be virtual, 3 hours, using Google Hangout
 * ACTION: jachym prepares doodle pool for virtual face to face meeting, jmckenna controls it.
 * Annual Global Meeting
 * Postponed to FOSS4G Global, Notthingham
 * MOTION: jmckenna moves to hold the OSGeo Annual General Meeting during the FOSS4G Nottingham event in September. Carried
 * ACTION: jmckenna to contact jo/peter to make sure they know we are confirmed
 * Short info about FOSS4G-CEE status for the year 2013
 * jachym reports, how things are moving for the FOSS4G-CEE for the year 2013, organized by the Bucharest team.
 * There is plan, organizing FOSS4G-E (for Europe) for the year 2014
 * MoU with universities, aghisla reports
 * Several universities (Kathmandu, Melbourne, Kentucky, Warsaw and Mexico) asked how to establish open source geospatial labs
 * aghisla is following steps, done earlyer by User:Sanand
 * Other topics
 * jachym notes, we should activaly popup at INSPIRE conference. jachym will try to prepare some proposal
 * Next meeting
 * Will be Face to face meeting, organized with help of doodle pool
 * MOTION: meeting closed

Assigned Tasks

 * ACTION: jachym prepares doodle pool for virtual face to face meeting, jmkenna controls it.
 * ACTION: jmckenna to contact jo/peter to make sure they know we are confirmed

Motions

 * MOTION: aghisla moves to accept minutes, mlucas seconds. Carried
 * MOTION: jmckenna moves to hold the OSGeo Annual General Meeting during the FOSS4G Nottingham event in September. Carried