Board Meeting FOSS4G2007

The OSGeo Board of Directors will meet in a face-to-face meeting prior to the FOSS4G2007 conference event. Space is limited to accomodate the board only. General OSGeo meeting / discussion will be possible during Annual General Meeting the following day.

Venue

• When: Sunday, September 23rd, 9am - 5pm
• Where: Harbour Towers Meeting Room - 203
• Breakfast, lunch and morning/afternoon foods and beverages will be provided

Agenda

These are suggested items and not a final agenda.

• Review and Update of OSGeo Priorities
• Budget Preparation for 2008
• Financial management / treasurer discussion (Ken Tamura available for call in, scheduled for 11am)
• Review of sponsorship programme - who the sponsors are, who could be approached, what seem to be their expectations of value in return
• 2008 Conference program, local conferences
• Possibility of and conditions around support fund for OSGeo members to get to conferences
• Whether and how well the current committee structure is working to coordinate Foundation activities
• Report from ED and overview of following year position
• Sustainable Funding
  • Review of Current Model
  • Discuss Conference Driven Model
  • Discuss Certification Driven Model
• Revisit and better define membership roles
• Francophone Local Chapter to present their proposal to form officially (Vincent Picavet & Yves Jacolin scheduled to come at 4pm)
• Legal situation with GeoTools in particular, access to legal support generally.

Please contribute.

Who

Who is planning to attend...

• Tyler Mitchell
• Dave McIlhagga
• Frank Warmerdam
• Paul Ramsey
  • Subject to conference needs...
• Arnulf Christl
• Bob Bray
• Jo Walsh
• Jeroen Ticheler

Who is planning to virtually attend (given there is Voip possible)...

• Markus Neteler
• ...