Board Meeting 2007 05 18

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 18th of May at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

• Appoint meeting secretary
• Review and approve Twenty Sixth Board Meeting minutes
• Discuss timing of a FOSS4G OSGeo face-to-face meeting, if we want one.
• Approve Arnulf as new VisCom Chair.
• GeoTools Contribution Steps
• Revise the FAQ about proprietary software. -- Jo
• Revisit What's Working and What's Not Working -- Arnulf
• Revisit Board tasks and consider to either drop this page altogether (do it via Trac?) or appoint page maintainer -- Arnulf

Minutes

• Meeting taken place on telephone Conference Call and on IRC.
• In attendance: Mark Lucas, Arnulf Christl, Jo Walsh, Markus Neteler, Chris Holmes, Frank Warmerdam, Tyler Mitchell

Appoint meeting secretary

• Mark scribing meeting

Reviewed and approved Twenty Sixth Board Meeting minutes

• All were in favour of approving minutes

Discuss timing of a FOSS4G OSGeo face-to-face meeting, if we want one.

• Agreed that a face-to-face meeting was valuable to have in Victoria
• Sunday before the conference is the tentative date - assume there is a room available during conference set up
• Will coordinate with Paul Ramsey

Approve Arnulf as new VisCom Chair.

• VisCom approved Arnulf as chair
• All board were in favour, approved

GeoTools Contribution Steps

• General discussion (Chris)
• Discussion around copyright of GeoTools
• Reviewing email that Chris sent - about assigning copyright to OSGeo
• Jo, commented on clause that OSGeo may license under other terms, some questions about whether they can be further reassigned
• General agreement that having a standardized CLA for projects is good, rather than different for each one
• Geotools is working on wording in a new proposed agreement
• Discussed how to accomplish a legal review of the CLA
• Agreed to finalize wording, then coordinate with Autodesk legal staff which has donated assistance in the past

Revise the FAQ about proprietary software. -- Jo

• Reviewed changes and accepted

Revisit What's Working and What's Not Working -- Arnulf

• Briefly reviewed the pages
• Agreed to have everyone review the web pages and update

Revisit Board tasks and consider to either drop this page altogether (do it via Trac?) or appoint page maintainer -- Arnulf

• Revisit board tasks and consider whether to drop and move to trac, what should status be.
• Reviewed the list and discussed some of the current status, not an active page
• Move to Trac as appropriate
• Various outstanding tasks briefly mention, on Tyler's plate: fund raising, 501c3 status, election planning
• Others: binary stack, financial statements

Other items:

• Directors and officers insurance
  • Tyler has a quote, will coordinate with Gary and have board give final approval
  • Other foundations carry this type of insurance, will research and make recommendations
• OSGeo Journal
  • First journal released, good work

Meeting adjourned 15:41UTC, all in favour