Board Meeting 2007 02 02
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The 24rd board meeting has been tentatively scheduled for the 2nd of February at 16:00 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 Third Board Meeting minutes
- Consider motion to form New Mexico USA local chapter of OSGeo (letter).
- Consider motion to form Italian chapter of OSGeo (request & hot discussions).
- Review financial report.
- Discuss plans for board elections.
- Discuss plans for additional charter membership.
- Discuss plans for corporate bylaws.
Minutes
These are the minutes of the 24th meeting of the OSGeo Board of Directors held February 2nd, 2007, 08h00 PST.
- Board members present: Frank Warmerdam, Jo Walsh, Markus Neteler, Arnulf Christl, Mark Lucas
- Others present: Tyler Mitchell,
- Appoint meeting secretary
- Tyler doing up minute notes
- Review and approve Twenty Third Board Meeting minutes
- No issues. Frank moves to adopt, Jo seconds, all in favour, passed.
- Consider motion to form New Mexico USA local chapter of OSGeo (letter).
- Lots of discussion around purpose of local chapter and that local chapter could provide some of infrastructure needs they mention in their application
- Discussion of how to proceed with approving local chapters
- To provide feedback to NM application group, request for them to do the following:
- advertise on discuss list
- move application/info to wiki
- as per http://www.osgeo.org/content/chapters/guidelines.html
- Motion defer to next meeting
- Tyler to follow up with NM group to further discuss
- Board is generally supportive of the idea, just wants to clarify a few points and get the idea out in the open
- Consider motion to form Italian chapter of OSGeo (request & hot discussions).
- Discussion included some questions from arnulf, in particular whether this chapter wants to have companies as members and how this relates to OSGeo's official position on corporate members.
- Markus brings up points of confusion in Italian discussions, as many people are involved and there are many opinions:
- GFOSS.it is being turned into a legal 'association'
- In 1-2 weeks there is a GFOSS meeting in Palermo to discuss and start this process for starting a chapter
- Markus recommends defering decision on local Italian Chapter until after GFOSS changes have settled.
- Consensus to defer to future meetings
- Review financial report.
- General discussion around report, compiled by Tyler
- Gary not available for discussion or comment, need to finalise the report when he has had a chance to review it
- Discussion focused on how much detail, i.e. down to bank statement level, to be posting publicly. Deferring to Gary for future discussion.
- Venka had a correction to report: $1000 donation was sent to GIS-IDEAS 2006 conference not MapAsia
- Discuss plans for board elections.
- Question about board election procedures and timing, should they be in bylaws/charter, questions about how other foundation models
- No specific plan for how to hold the elections, etc has been proposed. Frank is preparing one that can then be debated more broadly.
- Discussing whether election process and timing should be part of bylaws. No clear answer.
- TODO: Frank draft up potential processes for elections, etc. of board and charter members
- TODO: Jo review how these could be handled with bylaws
- Then open up discussion broadly to membership for guidance
- Jo notes that FOSS Foundations meeting will discuss these topics
- Discuss plans for additional charter membership.
- Discussed above
- Discuss plans for corporate bylaws.
- Discussed above
- New business
- Arnulfs wonders what we are doing about OSGeo's first birthday
- TODO: tyler to do up year in review/success story for birthday present to osgeo based on Review OSGeo 2006
- Jo brought up questions about a Postgresql meeting, and their interest in OSGeo representations. Jo forwarding link to group.
- Frank brought up question for potentially sponsoring some media to come to FOSS4G event,
- In particular someone well know like Adena. Including some funding to help.
- Mark suggests to focus on new or very large media splashes .. what we might not have received otherwise
- Some discussion about having a foundation-level media sponsor
- TODO: frank to bring up media funding discussion with viscom
- OSSIM project is interested in moving to OSGeo infrastructure
- Discussion of systems help process...
- Shawn no longer full time for osgeo tasks.. only 10%,
- Funnel tickets through Trac and assign to SAC
- SAC has workflow questions/issues to still hammer out
- Arnulfs wonders what we are doing about OSGeo's first birthday
- Mark makes motion to close meeting, Jo seconds, all were in favour, meeting adjorned 08h55 PST.