Board Meeting 2011-12-08

This board meeting is scheduled for the 8th of December 2011 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.

Agenda

Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2011-11-10
Appoint secretary
Action items from last meeting
- Frank: try to contact RCMRD once more re: MOU
- mpg: get a google voice phone number for OSGeo
- Mark: continue email threads on NA chapter formation
- Jeff: prepare proposal for aiding Beijing LOC (proposal) (discussion)
- Arnulf: send out summary of meeting to discuss list (due Nov 17th) (done)
- Jo: form bylaws team
- mpg: send out motions for formal voting
Incubation: GeoMoose and Rasdaman accepted by the incubation committee; looking for volunteers to mentor existing projects (i.e. GeoServer)
Incubation: Graduate PostGIS (given that the vote has been concluded in the Incubation Committee see motion at: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2011-December/001703.html)
Charter Member Election Report
Finances update
(Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter OSGeo-NA
Discuss how to proceed with FOSS4G 2012 in Beijing. Urgent and important!
2012 Budget Brainstorm
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