Board Meeting 2017-11-02
This board meeting is scheduled for 2 November 2017 (the first Thursday of each month) at [1] through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review action items from previous meeting
- Discussion about Officer positions (President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary)
- OSGeo-Live incubation application approved by incubation committee
- Website/reboot status update; feedback summary, providing access to community for management (call on community to organize sprints to fill in information, solve map issues)
- budget planning
- review/revise sponsors program for 2018
- Projects review
- Discuss alternative to Dropbox
Minutes
Welcome
- Attending: Angelos, Jody, Jeff, Vasile, Helena, Maria A, Michael, Maria B.
- Presiding: Angelos
- Scribing: Jody
Initial discussion:
- Review of agenda, general agreement to cap meeting at hour, consider holding second meeting in November due to crunch time - Discussion of appoint a chair (in the absence of committee chair). Apparently prior custom that "oldest member present chairs". Was unable to quickly confirm practice from logs. Angelos volunteered to chair the meeting in keeping with current custom of asking who would like to chair the meeting (even when we have a chair-of-the-board). - some discussion of who is the oldest member (by age, or ...)
Review action items from previous meeting
Jeff McKenna to send the Project Review document to the Board.
- No update, google doc needs to be converted to wiki.
Vasile and Angelos to follow up on Europe bank account and request for travel support as necessary
- discussion on need for European account: - helps facilitate activities in europe and avoid exchange costs (example foss4g 2016 funds, upcoming bonn code sprint, advancing funds for 2019 event, SOC payments, etc...) - need is slightly reduced as treasurer reports a new system to avoid punishing wire transfer costs - need two active board members, and a mandate from organization to open a bank account - discussion of board member availability and travel in europe; try to determine if this can be done prior to bonn code sprint -
14:04:46 jgarnett: - Jody to see who could not make the AGM, and we can sort out contacting those projects on the board email list 14:04:46 jgarnett: - Angelos to join the SAC meeting to report back progress on website.
- ...
Actions
- TBD
Motions
MOT1: Recognize OSGeo Live as entering the incubation process.
- Motion by Jody
- Seconded by Jeff
- Approve: Jeff, Vasile, Michael, Helena, Maria A, Maria B, Jody
- Abstain: Angelos
- Block:
- Moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/u153HNCi/recognize-osgeo-live-as-entering-the-incubation-process-
- Outcome: Motion pending
MOT 2: Disband and reform finance committee
- Motion by Michael
- Seconded by Angelos
- Approve: Angelos, Maria B, Helena, Vasile, Jody, Michael
- Abstain: Maria A, Jeff
- Block:
- Moved to Loomio: https://www.loomio.org/d/P7wRCHhV/dissolve-the-finance-committee-as-inactive
- Outcome: Motion pending
IRC Log