Board Meeting 2015-06-18
This board meeting is scheduled for the 18th of June 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-05-21
- brief treasurer report
- FOSS4G 2015 update
- FOSS4G 2016 update
- Formal request to form Belgian chapter
- Begin OSGeo Election 2015 process for Charter and Board membership
- Travel etc. expenses discussion for FOSS4G 2016 going to 2015 and for next years
- Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
- Request for funding OSGeo President's travel to FOSS4G Seoul conference.(request)
- Face2face meeting in Como
- add your items here
Items from past meetings
- Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
- Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
- Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
- Marketing committee without a chair
- Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
- Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron [1]
- OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
- [UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project
Minutes
- Attending: Jeff, Gerald, Vasile, Maxi, Michael, Jachym, Jorge, Bart (partly), Anne (partly)
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Vasile
brief treasurer report
- link to PayPal account is broken. a new OSGeo will be created by Mike.
- have received money from Canada account will deposit this weekend
FOSS4G 2015 update
- presentations/ academic track review decision announced
- early bird registration closes on June 22
- jeff requested an OSGeo booth
FOSS4G 2016 update
- things look to be moving well. active mailing list.
Assigned Tasks
Motions (confirmed by email)
See email thread on the Board list.
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve past meeting's minutes | x | x | x | x |