Board Meeting 2006 02 17

Notes for board meeting to occur on Friday 17, 2006.

Meeting will take place by phone/skype (backed by irc on #osgeo on irc.freenode.net).

Meeting date/time can be planned with http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html

Agenda

• Agreement on a legal framework for the official corporation, setting up the company, etc. Discuss key bylaw provisions and approve a draft of bylaws for public review.
• Designate a president and treasurer for the foundation (required by law, but can be members of the board)
• Designate Rich Steele Secretary and Legal Counsel for the foundation.
• Setting up a bank account.
• Discuss timing of establishing PSCs for projects, including initial software grant from Autodesk.
• Discussion of Project Incubation.
• Discussion of intellectual property issues (see IP Issues Discussion Document)
  • OSGEO Trademark
  • Outbound Licensing Policy
  • In-bound licensing/contributions; form of contributor agreement for all OSGEO projects
• Insurance for board members.
• Review OSGEO Website Terms of Service
• Designate a "Web Site Committee" with a charter per Web Site Committee Motion.

Scheduled For

Start time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=2&day=17&hour=17&min=0&sec=0

Minutes

(Posted by Frank Warmerdam to IRC)

Key items were:

• we would setup a simple set of bylaws soon, with the expection of revising them in a few months when we have a full board and some stuff has been agreed on.
• Designated FrankW President, GaryL Treasurer, and Rich Steele Secretary.
• Established that all the initial projects would also go through a form of incubation.
• Rich will present a template contributors agreement.
• We approved the website terms of service.
• We approved the web site committee formation.
• Also various discussion, especially around the whole incubation issue.
• I am supposed to solicit interest in an incubation committee which we hope to formally establish at our next meeting.