Board Meeting 2017-04-12
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 4th of April 2017 at [1] through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Approve last meeting minutes
- FOSS4G Planning
- FOSS4G 2017 AGM planning: time slot (when and how long, LOC needs it soon), reports, board participants
- Information Exchange Event
- Networking Event
- Sol Katz award - ask Jeff to lead?
- OSGeo booth sign up on booth wiki
- Announce elections schedule
- Did we updating voting procedure as planned?
- Code sprint updates
- STDM_2017_Code_Sprint - request approved, funds transferred?
- FOSS4G-SOTM-AR - requested received, review needed. event code sprint budget
- Java_2017_Code_Sprint - finances sorted, sprint results
- CalGIS Sprint invite - invitation from LocationTech projects
- QGIS User Conference & Developer meeting - sponsorship & risk sharing request received (budget)
- Partner Updates
- IGU MOU update - Suchith requests board volunteer
- Marketing Committee
- Website/rebranding contract signed
- FOSS4G
- AAG
- OSCon
- Travel grants discussion - we have a requests with respect to foss4g and other events
- Sponsorship updates
- UN Committee's proposal for support
- MoU between Science and Technology Park, India and OSGeo Foundation
- Add agenda items
Minutes
- Attending: Venka, Mike, Helena, Jody, Anita, Maria, Angelos, Vasile
- Presiding: Venka
- Scribing: Angelos
- Approval of previous board meeting minutes on 2017-03-02 moved to Loomio
- FOSS4G planning discussion:
- FOSS4G 2017 AGM planning discussion: Ask LOC for 90 mins
- Sol Katz award: Jeff McKenna offered to lead
- Announce elections schedule:
- There will be no voting, any person nominated by a charter member and seconded by another charter member will be selected, unless there is a strong objection made in public (as agreed in f2f meeting in Bonn)
- Vasile will be CRO this year with help from Jeff McKenna.
- Code sprint updates
- STDM_2017_Code_Sprint funds transferred
- FOSS4G-SOTM-AR Code sprint request: Wiki page needs to be filled with more details regarding participating projects etc. before we can take a decision. Venka will follow up with organizers.
- Java_2017_Code_Sprint - finances sorted, sprint results: waiting on final sponsor invoice from Boundless. Java code sprint is done - blog post here
- CalGIS Sprint invite - invitation from LocationTech projects
- QGIS User Conference & Developer meeting - sponsorship & risk sharing request received: the request is for sponsorship + some risk sharing. The request is 3500 $ to this event, expected participation is 100-150. QGIS won't request any funding for the second event in april this year, which is dev only
- Partner Updates
- IGU MOU update - Suchith requests board volunteer, Helena volunteered
- Marketing Committee
- Website/rebranding contract signed, waiting first invoice. Project is underway.
- a number outreach events on the go: FOSS4G, AAG, OSCon
- Travel grants discussion moved to e-mail
- Sponsorship updates
- We have press released out for Gaia3D, GeoCat, GeoSolutions
- Astun has confirmed they will sponsor again this year.
- Waiting Boundless invoice
- Discussion on how to handle sponsorship from local events
- UN Committee's proposal for support: Maria will update the Board as soon as there is something clearer
- MoU between Science and Technology Park, India and OSGeo Foundation. Discussion to be moved to Loomio/email
- April 26th foss4g planning hangout (booth, agm, website workshop, f2f)
Motions
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOT1: March meeting minutes to be approved on e-mail | Venka, Angelos, Helena, Maria, Mike, Anita, Jody, Vasile | https://www.loomio.org/d/S0eXHhNf/approve-board-meeting-minutes-2017-03-02- Open | https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-13-02 | |||
| MOT2: Vasile and Jeff to be CRO for 2017 Charter Member Selection Process | Venka, Anita, Jody, Helena, Mike, Angelos, Maria | Vasile | ||||
| MOT3: Vasile and Jeff as CROs for 2017 Board elections | Angelos, Venka, Helena, Maria, Mike, Anita, | Vasile | ||||
| MOT5: Approve QGIS Code Sprint Budget request | Helena, Venka, Maria, Mike, Angelos, Vasile | Jody | Anita | |||
| MOT6: Discuss about FOSS4G Travel Grant by email | Anita, Jody, Mike, Venka, Angelos, Helena, Maria | |||||
| MOT7: Next board meeting on IRC: 11 May (Thu) same time | Mike, Venka, Angelos, Helena, Anita, Jody | |||||
| MOT8: April 26th foss4g planning hangout (booth, agm, website workshop, f2f) | Angelos, Venka, | Anita |
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