Board Meeting 2011-03-03

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Please note that this meeting has been scheduled one hour later than usual!

This board meeting is scheduled for the 3rd of March 2011 at 18:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.


Agenda

Minutes

Action Summary

Details

  1. GSoC coming up, Board to appoint official administrator. Wolf volunteered together with Anne.
    1. MOTION: Daniel moved to appoint Wolf and Anne as official GSoC admins for OSGeo, Frank seconded, all were in favour. Voted in IRC and Skype voice confirmed. Motion passed.
  1. FOSS4G 2011 update (Jeff)
    1. FOSS4G planning going well. Jeff brought up prices of hotels for discussion recently. Tyler: it's not really a consolation to attendees, but we got all the meeting rooms for the event for free, with this arrangement with Sheraton, thereby keeping the ticket prices lower.
    2. Arnulf: asking about conference planning handbook manual to maintain continuity between years, building on "Lessons Learned" pages in a systematic way. Jeff has some notes and a template he was discussing with Paul.
    3. TODO: Jeff will post some notes to wiki
    4. TODO: Arnulf email to Conference Committee to start discussion.
    5. Tyler and Peter interested in helping too. FOSSGIS (D-A-CH) has one they are using too which has helped a lot.
  1. Wikipedia / OSGeo Introduction - report ( if anything ) from first contact
    1. Arnulf wrote an introduction, included Brian in the CC. No feedback yet.


  1. Talk:Open Source and Open Standards ( Arnulf )
    1. It is a follow up from last year. We had a request for input from the OGC. They want to write a White paper on what they understand abotu "Openness" in their context. And relate it to Openness in the Open Source / Free Software understanding. Looking for more community feedback and tweaking.
  1. Marketing list discussion on giving OSGeo sponsors free FOSS4G passes (Tyler)
    1. General support for the idea from board. Discussion of who pays for what - LOC vs. Board budget. For future events would be good to have x# of passes available for Board to distribute.

would be that OSGeo would then pay for that money at the normal cost. 09:47:30 jmckenna_: crschmidt: ah ok, i see 09:47:45 crschmidt: jmckenna_: I mean, that's one way it could be done without LOC approval. 09:47:47 TylerM: there is also the "osgeo portion" of revenue in the budget that it could draw from... in theory! 09:47:55 TylerM: right right 09:47:56 jmckenna_: crschmidt: k i follow 09:48:19 crschmidt: In practice, what I would like to see is some number ( 20? ) passes to FOSS4G in the RFC that are provided to the oganization to use as it sees fit. 09:48:29 seven_: Please hop on Skype. Maybe that works better. 09:48:35 crschmidt: And we would use those to give to sponsors at the discretion of the board. 09:48:37 seven_: We'll need it later anyway. 09:48:50 : * crschmidt unfortunately can't hop on skype right now, due to wireless network in office still being down. 09:49:00 seven_: OK. 09:49:08 jmckenna_: crschmidt: yes it could go right into rfc/rfp 09:49:13 seven_: It seems like we are losing people here. 09:49:38 TylerM: i see only 3 people in skype .. suspecting email vote will be easier today 09:49:48 seven_: Would it make sense to cont. discussion on the open conf list? 09:49:49 : * seven wonders what to do then: Becoming sponsor for OSGeo and FOSS4G as now would pay for two tickets. Can take Seven for free... 09:49:49 TylerM: anyway.. this topic was just for discussion anyway. 09:50:07 : * markusN in skype now 09:50:09 seven_: TylerM: OK, then please start that on the open conf list. 09:50:20 jmckenna_: TylerM: good topic, thanks for bringing it up 09:50:33 seven_: And I motion to join all the public conf lists into one that we can also keep between years. 09:50:47 TylerM: I would like to consensus from board first from the sponsorship angle .. basically confirming that we'll spend some money ( however it's spent ) 09:50:51 TylerM: or not : ) 09:50:56 seven_: this was not a board "motion" 09:51:28 seven_: OK. Do you think we can decide this now? Or need further talk on board list? 09:51:37 jmckenna_: seven_: we can create a 'foss4g' osgeo list for 2012 and beyond 09:51:42 TylerM: no, no.. will send to board list for next steps 09:51:45 seven_: jmckenna_: +1 09:51:49 seven_: TylerM: +1^ 09:51:56 seven_: OK. Done with this topic? 09:52:04 TylerM: yup 09:52:07 jmckenna_: cool 09:52:08 seven_: Gr8t 09:52:18 seven_: Next - and last item: Incubation reports ( Arnulf ) 09:52:27 TylerM: ( only 4 / 9 directors in skype ) 09:52:43 : * FrankW is back online. do we need a skype call? 09:52:46 seven_: Yes. Please - if you can, hop on. 09:52:50 : * jmckenna_ on skype 09:53:03 seven_: Just to voice confirm Wolf and Aghisla 09:53:18 seven_: We have one more item: Incubation reports ( Arnulf ) 09:53:26 markusN: is there a major internet storm...? also skype is slow 09:53:46 seven_: I would suggest to hve mentors report to someone on a regular basis. 09:53:57 seven_: Some projects are moving very slowly. 09:54:03 FrankW: I should be available on skype now. 09:54:10 TylerM: FrankW: yup 09:54:18 seven_: And it seems some projects are stuck or even do strange things, esp. gvSIG: 09:54:22 aghisla: seven_: which mentors do you refer to? 09:54:38 seven_: OSGeo Incubation mentors. 09:54:41 seven_: Not GSoC 09:54:56 aghisla: ok, thanks 09:55:12 dmorissette: seven_: what strange things wrt gvSIG? 09:55:15 : * seven_ mentors PostGIS, and there is finally some movement there but it took me quite some nudging... 09:55:32 : * dmorissette mentors MetaCRS and we haven't made any progress in a while 09:55:35 seven_: I won't fo into detail because that is the job of the mentor or the folks who are affected. 09:56:37 seven_: So what to do? 09:57:02 seven_: Can we reactivate IncCom to get some pull into Inubation? 09:57:15 seven_: Or should we request reports to the board? 09:57:18 FrankW: well, we need a new chair for one thing. 09:57:30 seven_: We already discussed this. 09:57:32 FrankW: and no, I don't think the board should be involved in the details. 09:57:42 seven_: dmorissette volunteered. Why did it not happen yet? 09:57:53 : * FrankW suffers skype crash. 09:58:05 seven_: FrankW: +1 for board not getting involved. 09:58:07 FrankW: dmorissette: why didn't it? 09:58:23 spatialguru: seven_: can log into skype? 09:58:27 seven_: But currently process is broken, so board must intervene. 09:58:38 seven_: I am on Skype. 09:59:03 jmckenna_: seven_: you look offline to me 09:59:10 dmorissette: one comment I made to Frank since last face to face on this topic is that some people seem to have strong views on ways the incubation process/requirements should be changed, and I wondered if those people should take the lead instead 09:59:16 seven_: Yes, you all look offline to me too. 09:59:24 dmorissette: Thinking of Cameron for instance 09:59:35 seven_: I guess we are just stuck in a major eruption of solar winds... 09:59:53 seven_: dmorissette: Nope. 10:00:08 seven_: I don't want IncCom to turn into Marketing vehicle. 10:00:16 seven_: That was not what we intended this to be. 10:00:27 seven_: My 2Ct. 10:00:38 dmorissette: then why do we see little objection to cameron's proposals? 10:00:59 seven_: I objected all the way, Frank did too. 10:01:08 FrankW: I "raised concerns". 10:01:15 seven_: Maybe because IncCom is not functional right now. 10:01:39 seven_: dmorissette: I am sure that you would be a great chair for that committee. 10:01:45 : * FrankW too. 10:01:50 seven_: Shall I just nominate you? 10:02:03 FrankW: dmorissette: if you don't object, shall we just proceed with a motion in inccom? 10:02:05 dmorissette: to be honest it was a little while away so I have kind of forgotten... knowing there is support to keep things lightweight then I can take the IncCom chair and do my best 10:02:14 : * crschmidt is in support as well. 10:02:15 seven_: What prevents you from heading on? 10:02:24 seven_: OK. 10:02:33 seven_: But we should discuss this on IncCom. 10:02:33 FrankW: ok, I will proceed accordingly today. 10:02:37 FrankW: right 10:02:38 seven_: Perfect. 10:02:40 seven_: Thanks. 10:02:47 seven_: Puh. 10:02:49 seven_: Done. 10:02:59 seven_: Now what? No Skype, no voice call? 10:03:15 spatialguru: 4 of us in skype already! 10:03:21 seven_: I am fine with GSoC admin appointment like this and confirm via mail or next meeting. 10:03:31 seven_: Can you call me in via landline? 10:03:46 dmorissette: spatialguru: please add me to the call 10:03:47 seven_: I am on Skype but nobody onlie accross the atlantic. 10:04:05 FrankW: I don't think we need to get hung up on the gsoc appointment. We can officially confirm it at our next meeting but there is no controversy. 10:04:25 seven_: OK. 10:04:34 seven_: Well, then that's it for tonight. 10:04:49 seven_: Any last items before we cloe the meeting? 10:05:02 markusN: apparently no 10:05:09 seven_: Thanks all. 10:05:19 seven_: Motion to close the meeting. 10:05:22 : * crschmidt seconds 10:05:24 seven_: +1 10:05:28 FrankW: +1 10:05:30 seven_: Bye. 10:05:30 crschmidt: +1 10:05:33 spatialguru: everyone but arnulf in call now : ) 10:05:35 jmckenna_: +1 10:05:35 seven_: Ah, next meeting date! 10:05:39 : * crschmidt apologizes again for having crap internet 10:05:39 jmckenna_: : ) 10:05:50 crschmidt: next meeting: first thursday in April, same time UTC? 10:05:52 jmckenna_: same here chris 10:05:56 dmorissette: +1 to close meeting 10:06:01 crschmidt: April 7th 10:06:07 seven_: 2011-04-07 10:06:11 spatialguru: we'll vote without you arnulf : ) 10:06:24 seven_: But we moved the time one hour back. Crappy for Ravi. 10:06:26 jmckenna_: ok for this time on 7th? 10:06:30 jmckenna_: oh 10:06:32 crschmidt: Ah 10:06:36 dmorissette: ok for me 10:06:37 crschmidt: 'back' is earlier? 10:06:39 crschmidt: or later? 10:06:40 spatialguru: fine here 10:06:55 seven_: Lets keep the data and fix the time via mail. 10:06:57 : * markusN wonders why don't we vote on skype now 10:07:00 crschmidt: seven_: okay 10:07:05 spatialguru: seven_: got a voice # I can call you at? 10:07:08 seven_: Please go ahead and vote. 10:07:09 jmckenna_: i am on another board and they meet everything first thurs all morning...1.5 hour drive for me 10:07:19 jmckenna_: face to face...old-school 10:07:30 seven_: Ha. I'd love to have more of that... 10:07:34 spatialguru: maybe a different day would be better than 10:07:48 jmckenna_: friday? 10:08:12 seven_: No, lets keep it on Th. 10:08:17 seven_: Defer to mailing list. 10:08:25 dmorissette: I also think monday and Friday are bad days for this kind of stuff 10:08:32 spatialguru: +1 10:08:32 seven_: Have a great day. 10:08:34 seven_: Bye 10:08:36 seven_: ( wave ) 10:08:47 jmckenna_: hmm 10:09:17 spatialguru: Frank motioned, Daniel seconded to adopt Wolf and Anne as GSOC reps for this upcoming year... 10:09:20 markusN: dmorissette: I +1'ed on skype - voice is bad apparently 10:09:30 spatialguru: motion carried : ) 10:09:31 spatialguru: got you all 10:09:58 spatialguru: thanks! 10:09:59 spatialguru: cya 10:10:04 jmckenna_: thanks all 10:10:05 seven_: Cool, thanks spatialguru. 10:10:10 dmorissette: markusN: you sounded like darth vader : ) 10:10:15 markusN: bye 10:10:17 spatialguru: heh 10:10:26 seven_: Scary 10:10:27 Geoff__: bye 10:10:33 spatialguru: take it easy! 10:10:39 jmckenna_: figures no lag here at meeting end hahaha 10:11:11 spatialguru: biab

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