Board Meeting 2008 05 02

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of May 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

• Appoint meeting secretary,
• Review and approve Thirty Fifth Board Meeting minutes.
• Approve GeoNetwork graduation from incubation with Jeroen Ticheler as "VP, GeoNetwork". (see GeoNetwork Incubation Status)
• Approve deegree for entrance into incubation - http://www.deegree.de/ - Application ticket
• Approve FOSS4G Budget, and LOA with GISSA.
• Declare official Support for Cascadoss
• Create a new page for Board Election 2008 and update documents and processes on the Board page
• update Charter Membership Process pages
• Proposed general OSGeo Membership process with user pages and discuss OSGeo member mashup (Arnulf)
• Update from Tyler

Minutes

• In attendance Frank, Markus, Bob, Paul, Jo, Chris
• Approve meeting minutes from Thirty Fifth Board Meeting - Paul proposes, Frank seconds, all were in favour.

• GeoNetwork graduates from incubation
  • MOTION Frank motioned that GeoNetwork graduates from incubation, as approved by the Incubation committee. All were in favour.

• Deegree enters incubation

• • decision already approved by incubation committee
  • chris wonders about long list of projects, duplicate functionality confusing? frank says there are points of no overlap
  • discussion of has there been enough diligence done in making sure there is consent from both commercial backers + development community at large for incubation

• • MOTION Frank motions to accept deegree into incubation. Jo seconds, all were in favour.

• Approve FOSS4G2008 budget
  • Noted that we need more interconnect between mainstream OSGeo and FOSS4G organisers this year
  • Need final signoff on the profit/loss-sharing agreement with GISSA
  • MOTION by Paul to approve FOSS4G2008's budget, Markus seconds, all were in favour

• Approval of letter of Support for CASCADOSS
• Markus summary of his connections with CASCADOSS
• We will all find out more about it in June
  • MOTION to offer public support for CASCADOSS, Markus proposes, Frank seconds, all were in favour

• Create a new page for Board Election 2008 and update documents and processes on the Board page
  • Action is deferred
  • The number of new members will be between 10% and one third of the existing charter membership count as decided by the board. - 15 additional members
  • MOTION, Frank moves to add 15 additional Charter Members in 2008, Bob seconds, all were in favour

• Discussion of MetaCRS effort, common ground between proj.4, cs-map, proj4js

• Close meeting, all in favour.