Board Meeting 2008 05 02
This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of May 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.
Communication will use the Conference Call facilities.
Agenda
- Appoint meeting secretary,
- Review and approve Thirty Fifth Board Meeting minutes.
- Approve GeoNetwork graduation from incubation with Jeroen Ticheler as "VP, GeoNetwork". (see GeoNetwork Incubation Status)
- Approve deegree for entrance into incubation - http://www.deegree.de/ - Application ticket
- Approve FOSS4G Budget, and LOA with GISSA.
- Declare official Support for Cascadoss
- Create a new page for Board Election 2008 and update documents and processes on the Board page
- update Charter Membership Process pages
- Proposed general OSGeo Membership process with user pages and discuss OSGeo member mashup (Arnulf)
- Update from Tyler
Minutes
in attendance frank, markus, bob, paul, jo meeting minutes from previous paul proposes, frank seconds, everyone else +1
geonetwork graduates from incubation. frank motions, everyone else +1
deegree enters incubation -
discussion already approved by inccom
chris wonders about long list of projects, duplicate functionality confusing? frank say there are points of no overlap is there enough diligence been done / consent from both commercial backers + dev community markus - projects don't need open community to enter, this can help them (gvsig slacking a bit on public svn, process etc, how can help resolve?)
Frank motions, jo seconds, others +1
approve foss4g2008 budget need more interconnect between mainstream osgeo and foss4g organisers need final signoff on the profit/loss-sharing agreement with GISSA paul moves (markus seconds?) +1 everyone
Markus summary of his connections with CASCADOSS - we will all find out more about it in June Markus proposes, frank? +1
Create a new page for Board Election 2008 and update documents and processes on the Board page - deferred
The number of new members will be between 10% and one third of the existing charter membership count as decided by the board. - 15 additional members
frank moves, 15 more, bob +2, others +1
gary moving from adsk, wish him well
frank talks about aggregate projections library project - proj.4, cs-map, proj4js
end meeting, +1 all