Difference between revisions of "Board Meeting 2015-04-09"

Revision as of 23:56, 7 April 2015

This board meeting is scheduled for the 9th of April 2015 at 15.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Items in italic are recurring at each meeting.

Move items from past meetings, or add new items, at will. Note that the discussion is limited to 1 hour.

roll call
appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-03-05
brief treasurer report
"Geo for All" Student Awards request for seed funding (4k USD) (award wiki)
Proposing a Diversity statement for the Foundation
FOSS4G 2015 update
FOSS4G 2016 update
Request for funding OSGeo President's travel to enable expanding strategic level initiatives between OSGeo and ICA at ICC 2015 and SDI-Open 2015 (GeoforAll request)
(Request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (University of Amsterdam) ) - Dutch historical GIS based on the first cadastre of the Netherlands (1832)
add your items here..

Beginning plans for a 2015 budget (similar to OSGeo Budget 2014)
- Dealing with SAC/systems issues (Outstanding SAC Issues 2014)
Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
- Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
- Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
- Marketing committee without a chair
Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron [1]
OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
[UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project
[Jeff] draft a letter at OGC XML Schemas and FOSS4G Software Distribution

Also attended:

Motion	+1	0	-1	Abstain	Passed?	Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes	x	x	x	x	Yes/No

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 * FOSS4G 2016 update
 * Request for funding OSGeo President's travel to enable expanding strategic level initiatives between OSGeo and ICA  at ICC 2015 and SDI-Open 2015  ([http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-April/001447.html  GeoforAll request])
-* [Uva_letter_of_support] Request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (University of Amsterdam) - Dutch historical GIS based on the first cadastre of the Netherlands (1832)
+* ([http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Uva_letter_of_support Request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (University of Amsterdam) ]) - Dutch historical GIS based on the first cadastre of the Netherlands (1832)
 * add your items here..