Board Meeting 2013-07-11

This board meeting is scheduled for the 11th of July 2013 at 12.00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

roll call
appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-06-13
Charter/Board elections update; Decision on how many new Charter Members are to be added (as per our by laws this year between 14 and 48)
support for QGIS HackFest (sept 12-16) email
- asking for second installment: 750 USD
Repairing the OSGeo Service Providers page
- volunteers/funding specialists/something
OSGeo servers security issues
OSGeo Booth at Nottingham
- Offer of booth from LOC; do we accept?
  - booth size needed?
  - Who to manage booth duty volunteers
    - possibly Jeff to setup wiki and distribute call-for-volunteers
Changes needed to Elections process
- documented at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category_talk:Elections
- likely needs to be put on hold until after elections, but, important to followup later
Need to update bylaws http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
- possible half-day virtual meeting to go through necessary changes?
- suggestion by AdrianC: Board could produce an authoritative list of all the wiki pages considered to be approved
OSGeo Incubation Report 2013 Q2 IncCom_Report22 (ie chair reporting periodically - User:Jive )
- Process stalled for long-term projects, recommend allowing projects to retire from incubation (and invite them to reapply when ready)

amendments to the bylaws