Board Meeting 2017-11-21

This board meeting is scheduled for 21 November 2017 (as continuation of previous meeting) at [1] through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.

Agenda

roll call
appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Approve previous meeting minutes
Review action items from previous meeting
- Jeff / Maxi volunteer to work on converting project report from google document to wiki
- Vasile to coordinate sharing of travel calendars and establish when two board members can meet
- Angelos to ask 4-5 projects to attend the next meeting (from those who did not attend AGM), request slide to complete AGM presentation
- Vasile to schedule f2f meeting
- Maria A, Jody and Angelos to coordinate direct email campaign to project officers and set up wiki pages for 2018 budget
- Maria A schedule second meeting, using doodle poll
Plan a F2F meeting
Review/revise sponsors program for 2018
Project review GDAL/OGR (2016-2017 report)
Project review GeoTools (2017 report)
Project review Marble
Discuss alternative to Dropbox
Discussion about Officer positions (President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary)
Dissolve Geodata Committee
Draft 2018 budget update (funds for website management need to be added, make it a funded position?)
Relationship with AGU & possible MoU (thread)
Request to leverage GSoC 500 USD grant for 1 student's travel to FOSDEM devroom 2018 (thread)
Usage of OSGeo logo and name - see style guide
Discuss possibility of a Charter Members meeting, as part of the OSGeo Code Sprint in March (thread)

Attending: Angelos, Jody, Michael, Maria A, Jeff, Astrid, Vasile, Maria B, Helena.
Presiding: Angelos
Scribing: Michael

Initial discussion:

Meeting to last 1h
Report from Michael that OSGeo non profit taxes for 2016 filed with IRS and accepted

MOT1: Motion to approve Board meeting minutes of 2017-11-02 (see motions section)

MOT1: Motion to approve Board meeting minutes of 2017-11-02.

IRC Log