Board Meeting 2015-05-21

This board meeting is scheduled for the 21st of May 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

roll call
appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-04-09
brief treasurer report
Clarify rules on letters of support (Protocol for requesting letter of support)
FOSS4G 2015 update
FOSS4G 2016 update
Request for sponsorship for "Open Source Comes to Campus" - Algeria, October 2015. See request to the Board list
Travel etc. expenses discussion for FOSS4G 2016 going to 2015 and for next years
Beginning plans for a 2015 budget (similar to OSGeo Budget 2014)
- Dealing with SAC/systems issues (Outstanding SAC Issues 2014)

Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
- Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
- Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
- Marketing committee without a chair
Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron [1]
OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
[UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project

Also attended:

See email thread on the Board list.

Motion	+1	0	-1	Abstain	Passed?	Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes	x	x	x	x	Yes/No	x