Board Meeting 2017-04-12

This board meeting is scheduled for the 4th of April 2017 at through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.

Current items

 * roll call
 * appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
 * Approve last meeting minutes
 * FOSS4G Planning
 * FOSS4G 2017 AGM planning: time slot (when and how long, LOC needs it soon), reports, board participants
 * Information Exchange Event
 * Networking Event
 * Sol Katz award - ask Jeff to lead?
 * OSGeo booth sign up on booth wiki
 * Announce elections schedule
 * Did we updating voting procedure as planned?
 * Code sprint updates
 * STDM_2017_Code_Sprint - request approved, funds transferred?
 * FOSS4G-SOTM-AR - requested received, review needed. event code sprint budget
 * Java_2017_Code_Sprint - finances sorted, sprint results
 * CalGIS Sprint invite - invitation from LocationTech projects
 * QGIS User Conference & Developer meeting - sponsorship & risk sharing request received (budget)
 * Partner Updates
 * IGU MOU update - Suchith requests board volunteer
 * Marketing Committee
 * Website/rebranding contract signed
 * FOSS4G
 * AAG
 * OSCon
 * Travel grants discussion - we have a requests with respect to foss4g and other events
 * Sponsorship updates
 * UN Committee's proposal for support
 * MoU between Science and Technology Park, India and OSGeo Foundation
 * Add agenda items

Minutes

 * Attending: Venka, Mike, Helena, Jody, Anita, Maria, Angelos, Vasile
 * Presiding: Venka
 * Scribing: Angelos
 * Approval of previous board meeting minutes on 2017-03-02 moved to Loomio
 * FOSS4G planning discussion:
 * FOSS4G 2017 AGM planning discussion: Ask LOC for 90 mins
 * Sol Katz award: Jeff McKenna offered to lead
 * Announce elections schedule:
 * There will be no voting, any person nominated by a charter member and seconded by another charter member will be selected, unless there is a strong objection made in public (as agreed in f2f meeting in Bonn)
 * Vasile will be CRO this year with help from Jeff McKenna.
 * Code sprint updates
 * STDM_2017_Code_Sprint funds transferred
 * FOSS4G-SOTM-AR Code sprint request: Wiki page needs to be filled with more details regarding participating projects etc. before we can take a decision. Venka will follow up with organizers.
 * Java_2017_Code_Sprint - finances sorted, sprint results: waiting on final sponsor invoice from Boundless. Java code sprint is done - blog post here
 * CalGIS Sprint invite - invitation from LocationTech projects
 * QGIS User Conference & Developer meeting - sponsorship & risk sharing request received: the request is for sponsorship + some risk sharing. The request is 3500 $ to this event, expected participation is 100-150. QGIS won't request any funding for the second event in april this year, which is dev only
 * Partner Updates
 * IGU MOU update - Suchith requests board volunteer, Helena volunteered
 * Marketing Committee
 * Website/rebranding contract signed, waiting first invoice. Project is underway.
 * a number outreach events on the go: FOSS4G, AAG, OSCon
 * Travel grants discussion moved to e-mail
 * Sponsorship updates
 * We have press released out for Gaia3D, GeoCat, GeoSolutions
 * Astun has confirmed they will sponsor again this year.
 * Waiting Boundless invoice
 * Discussion on how to handle sponsorship from local events
 * UN Committee's proposal for support: Maria will update the Board as soon as there is something clearer
 * MoU between Science and Technology Park, India and OSGeo Foundation. Discussion to be moved to Loomio/email
 * April 26th foss4g planning hangout (booth, agm, website workshop, f2f)

Motions
IRC Log


 * http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2017-04-12.log