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
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-04-09
- brief treasurer report
- Approve OSGeo Code of Conduct, as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Of_Conduct
- Clarify rules on letters of support (Protocol for requesting letter of support)
- Incubation: PyWPS to enter incubation with Tom Kralidis as mentor. Committee membership has been adjusted based on participation.
- FOSS4G 2015 update
- FOSS4G 2016 update
- Finalize OSGeo Budget 2015
- Request the allocated $5K for ICA/OSGeo labs for funding Student travel awards for FOSS4G 2015 Seoul [1]
- note: request to Board to split the already allocated 5K$ for ICA-OSGeo labs student travel into 3.5K$ for GeoForAll website development + 1.5K$ FOSS4G 2015 student travel fund [NOT NEEDED see above]
- 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
- Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
- add your items here
Items from past meetings
- 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 [2]
- 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
Minutes
- Attending: Jeff, Bart, Vasile, Anne, Michael, Jachym, Jorge (partly)
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Bart
brief treasurer report
- directors insurance has been updated for the next year
- the osgeo town hall in europe expenses have been received and paid
- and dmorissette is working with tyler to close out the CAN td account and update our paypal account
- currently we cannot accept funds on our paypal account Mike hopes to have this all resolved soon but its not complete yet
code of conduct
- Implementation steps (how things happen/reports/actions/records/decisions) must come later.
- Kristin, EliL , Camille and Jeff have committed offline to develop an implementation plan
FOSS4G 2015 update
- things look to be moving well. total abstracts a little lower, but still good
FOSS4G 2016 update
- all progress is on their public mailing list. local organizing committee is forming (workshop chair named this week)
- they are also thinking of logo
Assigned Tasks
- Update http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support to mention it has been re-approved (BART)
Motions (confirmed by email)
See email thread on the Board list.
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve past meeting's minutes | 6 | x | x | x | Yes | |
| accept v1.0 of the proposed OSGeo Code of Conduct (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Of_Conduct) from CameronS et al | 6 | x | x | x | Yes | |
| re-adopt http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support for future requests for letters of support | 6 | x | x | x | Yes | |
| PyWPS project to enter OSGeo Incubation with Tom Kralidis as mentor. | 5 | x | x | 1 | Yes | |
| approve the OSGeo 2015 Budget as described at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2015 | 7 | x | x | x | Yes |
Full, raw minutes notes
See: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-05-21.log