Board Meeting 2013-10-17

This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of October 2013 at [1] on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

Discuss FOSS4G LOC vs OSGeo involvement
- Need to setup processes for managing FOSS4G
  - Template Contract with PCO
  - Non-profit aspects (taxes vs PCO, extending nonprofit status to LOC, etc.)
  - See email from PDX committee

Incubation committee
- IncCom_Report23
- recommends Marble GIS for graduation (see Marble_Graduation_Checklist), project officer will be Torsten Rahn, press release draft: Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation

Make a formal motion about potential inactive Charter members
- Proposal: Current OSGeo Charter members who have not voted in the last two board elections will be invited (via email) to move from the current OSGeo-Charter member list to a Past OSGeo Charter Members list, and will loose their voting rights. These emailed members may either respond with a commitment to vote in future board elections, or be moved. Not responding within 3 weeks would result in being moved.

Discuss possibility of extended Board meeting re: OSGeo priorities
- Discuss OSGeo vision, mission, objectives, policies updates
- Possible business-dev position to manage sponsor relations
- Setup one or more working groups?
- SAC issues

Discuss OSGeo involvement with partner organizations:
- Building OSGeo-OGC synergies in Geospatial Education (following up discussions at FOSS4G 2013)
- OGC, LocationTech, OSGeo Sponsors, (others?)
- Need champions for each one?

OSGeo servers infrastructure for FOSS4G-* conferences (FOSS4G-E in this case, web server, mailing lists, several mail addresses).
- Is it common, what about other teams, how did they do it?
- Is it required, does OSGeo want to provide such infrastructure?

Deferred items from last meeting (please move up selected items)