Board Meeting 2014-08-14

This board meeting is scheduled for the 14th of August 2014 at 20.00UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2014-07-17
• Elections update
• Updates on Portland
  • Annual General Meeting
  • Board meeting
• Revise "Positive Attributes" to include something about protecting against hostile takeover attempts
  • Phrasing attempt: "Be aware of and protect against any hostile takeover attempts of OSGeo or OSGeo resources, including an awareness of this potential threat whenever changing the organizational structure, especially the charter member and board election processes"* *We believe this threat to be incredibly low or non-existent but err on the side of caution.
• GeoServer would like to switch copyright owner from OpenPlans to OSGeo: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-118 (Q: what do we need to do? A: This is FYI so paperwork from OpenPlans is not a surprise)
• add your items here
• Select next meeting timeslot

Minutes

• Attending:
• Presiding:
• Scribing:

Full, raw minutes notes

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