Board Meeting 2006 02 17
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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.