Board Meeting 2011-11-10

This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of November 2011 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

Agenda

• Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2011-10-05
• Appoint secretary
• Action items from last meeting
  1. mpg: remove last line from codesprint guidelines [done]
  2. Peter: make mission text same on all pages
  3. Jeff/Tim: draft RCMRD MOU
  4. Peter: look into conf call options
  5. All: review Tyler's task list and prioritize, mark for budget if outsourcing is the option
• (Motion to) accept Jody Garnett as new Incubation Committee chair replacing Daniel Morissette
• (Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter OSGeo-NA
• Discuss how to proceed with FOSS4G 2012 in Beijing.
• Geospatial Media offer to join organizing the Open Source track at Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam (see mail)
• Review, simplify and harmonize OSGeo Bylaws, guidelines and OSGeo Constitution
• Review What's_Not_Working and What's Working (last edits from 2006) and update or delete (not sure whether we need this pages).
• Task WebCom (if still alive) with web site redesign, see also http://www3.osgeo.org/ and WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus#All_Together_Now
• Go To Person / Czar for sponsorship requests and follow-ups
• please add items

Minutes

• logistics
  • detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-11-03.log
  • Attending:
  • Regrets:
  • Absent:
  • Chair:
  • Scribe:

Motions

1. approval of previous meeting's minutes (m/ Daniel, 2/ Jeff, all +1)
2. appoint mpg as secretary (m/ Daniel, 2/ Peter, all +1)
3. close meeting (m/ Frank, 2/ mpg, all +1)