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
- 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.
- Discuss plans for additional charter membership.
- Discuss plans for corporate bylaws.