Board Meeting 2013-06-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of June 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 2013-05-09
• GRASS code sprint support (request)
• Begin plans for Board and Charter member elections
  • Including refreshing OSGeo Advocate page. (raised by Cameron Shorter)
• Discussion on new possible Standards committee, to work with OGC
• Brief update on FOSS4G in Nottingham
• Possible OGC Board and OSGeo Board informal meeting in Nottingham (S.Feldman's idea)
• OSGeo appearance at INSPIRE conference - 2013 and future --Jachym 01:36, 6 June 2013 (PDT)
• OSGeo SDI committee --Jachym 01:37, 6 June 2013 (PDT)
• Board, please clarify (brief) - is FOSS4G a trademark? Does the OSGeo Logo and brand appear at FOSS4G events ? --darkblue_b 08:20, 6 June 2013 (PDT)
• add your items here
• Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
• Schedule next meeting

Minutes

• Attending: Frank, Jeff, Jachym, Cameron, Anne, Peter, Daniel

• Presiding: Jeff

• Scribing: Michael

Assigned Tasks

• Frank to created SDI mailing list

Full, raw minutes notes

• [2:02] start

• roll: Frank, Jeff, Jachym, Cameron, Aanne, peter, Daniel

• MOTION: approve last minutes (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-05-09)
  • 1/anne, 2/jachym, all +1

• [2:03] scribe to be more careful transcribing motions

• [2:06] GRASS code sprint support
  • http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2013-June/010812.html
  • asking for US$750
  • discussion of need to follow guidelines for transpearnecy
  • MOTION: To grant $750USD for this event with the expectation that financial report will be provided back to the board on completion.
    • Anne/1, mpg/2, Daniel/+0, others +1

• [2:16] Begin plans for Board and Charter member elections
  • will ideally be before FOSS4G -- usually they take place from June to August
  • discussing suggestions for CROs, noted should not be board member (could be retiring board member)
  • seven suggested, accepts
  • mpg volunteers to assist
  • MOTION to appoint Arnulf Christl as CRO for 2013 Charter Member and Board election, with goal to have both done by September
    • Daniel/1, Jeff/2, all +1

• [2:22] Discussion on new possible Standards committee, to work with OGC
  • side mention of OSGeo advocate role -- suggest considering OSGeo Advocate refresh at the same time as Charter member, to be discussed later
  • topic deferred to standards list

• [2:25] brief update on FOSS4G in Nottingha
  • going well, 300 registrations to date (break-even tought to be around 500)
  • no questions for LOC
  • request to plug event at CEE - Jeff to follow up w/ jachym

• [2:32] Possible OGC Board and OSGeo Board informal meeting in Nottingham (S.Feldman's idea)
  • OGC board in town for AGI event
  • Suchith has even volunteered to organize an informal get-together for osgeo board
  • noted that new board new members will be official at that time
  • suchith and steven waiting for OSGeo backing before contacting OGC board
  • side discussion of funding board members to attend foos4g, f2f mtg
  • MOTION: I move that OSGeo approach OGC to set up a meeting, and that seven be tasked with the responsiblity of sorting out details of the meeting.
    • Cameron/1, mpg/2, all +1

• [2:53] OSGeo appearance at INSPIRE conference
  • there were 2 proposals from OSGeo: paper and "jrc-osgeo ping-pong workshop"
  • ("jrc-osgeo ping-pong workshop": means "dialog between OSGeo and Joint Research Centre")
  • presentation was NOT accepted; workshop, after discussion and organisation, was
  • presentation could be poster - suggestion marketing work to produce poster

• [2:59] OSGeo SDI committee
  • http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SDI_Committee
  • MOTION: create a list for them, let them choose to make a formal committee revquest if they feel they want/need to
    • mpg/1, jachym/2, all +1

• MOTION: adjourn
  • mpg/1, all +1