Board Meeting 2016-12-15
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 15th of December 2016 at [1] through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Approve last meeting minutes
- Formal mandate requested from the marketing committee [2]
- Approve Dar es Salaam to host FOSS4G 2018 [3], Related wiki page with more information
- Update on budget requests, the current status is here: OSGeo_Budget_2017
- Approve next release of funds to FOSS4G2017 ($50K USD)
- Face2face meeting 2017
- Add agenda items
Minutes
- Attending: Venka, Vasile, Helena, Anita, Maria, Angelos, Sanghee, Jody
- Presiding: Anita
- Scribing: Sanghee
- Approval of previous board meeting minutes on 2016-11-25
- Discussion about mandate and budget request from marketing committee. This request was divided into 2 itmes, mandate request and budget request.
- Approval of grant mandate to marketing committee.
- Approval of Dar es Salaam to host FOSS4G 2018
- Discussion about budget planning
- Anita will contact PSCs and Venka contact remaining committees for the budget requests
- Decision on planning to have a F2F meeting on budget planning
- Decided to discuss next release of funds to FOSS4G 2017 team ($50K USD) with formal request from FOSS4G 2017 Boston team.
- Will discuss F2F meeting dates through mail
- Next Board Meeting was scheduled for 2017-01-05 14:00UTC
Tabled for email/loomio discussion
- Schedule budget planning on-line F2F meeting dates
- Approval of next release of funds(USD 50K) to FOSS4G 2017 Boston team
- Schedule 2017 board F2F meeting dates
Action Items
- Contact PSCs(Anita) and remaining committees(Venka) for the budget requests
- Schedule Hangout meeting (before end of December) for discussing about budget planning
Motions
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOT1: Approve the last board meeting minutes on 2016-11-25 | Helena, Anita, Venka, Sanghee, Angelos, Jody, Vasile, | Michael | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-11-25 | |||
| MOT2: Grant mandate to Marketing Committee | Helena, Jody, Angelos, Anita, Venka, Sanghee, Vasile, Michael | The committee now seeks a mandate and executive responsibility for: 1) establishing and executing a medium term marketing strategy geared at growing our community with new users, as determined in the marketing strategy for OSGeo-outreach, by means of; A - a new website and logo design (2017) B - a clean up/new marketing collateral (2017) C - ongoing support for events e.g. downloadable marketing collateral, event formats etc (ongoing) via the website | ||||
| MOT3: Approve Dar es Salaam to host FOSS4G 2018 | Helena, Anita, Sanghee, Venka, Vasile, Angelos, Michael | Jody, Maria | Passed | |||
| MOT4: Plan a F2F budget discussion before our next board meeting in Jan, preferably before end of 2016 | Maria, Venka, Jody, Helena, Anita, Sanghee, Angelos, Michael, Vasile | Passed | ||||
| MOT5: Next board meeting on Jan 5th, 2017 | Jody, Vasile, Venka, Sanghee, Maria, Angelos |
Motions here are to be confirmed by email for public record.
See email thread on the Board list.