Board Meeting 2015-06-18
This board meeting is scheduled for the 18th of June 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 2015-05-21
- brief treasurer report
- FOSS4G 2015 update
- FOSS4G 2016 update
- Formal request to form Belgian chapter
- Begin OSGeo Election 2015 process for Charter and Board membership
- 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)
- Request for funding OSGeo President's travel to FOSS4G Seoul conference.(request)
- Face2face meeting in Como
- 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 [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
Minutes
- Attending: Jeff, Gerald, Vasile, Maxi, Michael, Jachym, Jorge, Bart (partly), Anne (partly)
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Vasile
brief treasurer report
- link to PayPal account is broken. a new OSGeo will be created by Mike.
- have received money from Canada account will deposit this weekend
FOSS4G 2015 update
- presentations/ academic track review decision announced
- early bird registration closes on June 22
- jeff requested an OSGeo booth
- the procedure for liability in the case of a loss should be clarified with the help of OSGeo Conference Committee
FOSS4G 2016 update
- things look to be moving well. active mailing list.
Formal request to form Belgian chapter
- well written letter
- first FOSS4G-BE will take place in October
- very active mailing list
- dirk will be the liaison officer in relation with OSGeo
OSGeo Election 2015 process for Charter and Board membership
Assigned Tasks
Motions (confirmed by email)
See email thread on the Board list.
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve past meeting's minutes | x | x | x | x |