Meeting Minutes Summer 2006

Budget Discussion - Need $285,000 to $520,000

We discussed two sets of budget items. One was the idea of an "Executive Director" who would represent OSGeo on a full-time basis to make sure we are fulfilling the OSGeo mission and priorities.

The priorities have been discussed on the board list. For focus, we limited our discussion to the top five priorities, because we felt that they:

• had the most impact on fulfilling our mission
• included the greatest number of operational expenses that would be required

In summary, we will need to raise between $275,000 and $520,000 to be effective in carrying out the priorities as expressed by the OSGeo community since its inception four months ago in Chicago.

We broke the discussion into two discussions about:

1. The hiring of an executive director.
2. The budget required to implement the top five priorities we've identified.

Executive Director - $135,000 to $170,000

Responsibilities

• Evangelism
• MarComm
  • Internal and External
  • Outward bound communication
  • Community Management
  • Fundraising
  • Conference management

Qualifications

• Excellent Communications Skills
• Needs to be conversant with developer and user community concerns
• Needs to understand open source
• Must be willing to travel world-wide
• Fully burdened cost $135-170K
• Salary – negotiable ($90-120K)
• Fringe (Medical, Insurance, DSL, etc.) $15-20K
• Travel & Expenses - $30K

OSGeo Priority Fulfillment Expenses - $150,000 to $350,000

• Promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software)- $133,000
• To provide resources for foundation projects - infrastructure, funding (Fundraising), legal, ... - $60,000
• To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (e.g. EOGEO) - $100,000
• To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - binary "stack" builds, cross package documentation, etc. - $50,000