Board Meeting 2016-3-10
This board meeting is scheduled for the 10th of March 2016 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.
Agenda
Current items
Agenda:
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Budget Plan 2016
- Process for handling Code Sprint request
- Support for QGIS HackFest at Girona
- Status update on handling Service Provider page and OpenHUB requests
- Update on Survey regarding OSGeo Strategic Plan
- Update on OSGeo Seal Contest
- Update Sponsorship and clarifying Project Sponsorship Category
- FOSS4G 2016 update
- FOSS4G 2017 seed funding approval
- OSGeo Finland Chapter approval
- foss4gna update
- Funding QGIS Codesprint/Developers meeting - QGIS HackFest, Girona
- UCGIS MOU update
- add items
Items from past meetings
- Review face-to-face meeting: Board Face to Face Meeting 2016
Minutes
- Attending: Venka, Anita, Dirk, Jody, Helena, Vasile
- Presiding: Venka
- Scribing: Vasile
Motions
Motions here are to be confirmed by email for public record.
See [ email thread] on the Board list.
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schedule next IRC board meeting | ||||||
| The conference committee recommends that the Board approves the request from the Boston LOC for an advance of up to $70,000 to be phased $20,000 by end March 2016 and up to $50,000 during Q4 2016 and provides an additional guarantee against losses of $45,000 making a total exposure of up to $115,00. This approval is subject to the BLOC and/or their PCO signing an agreement with OSGeo (see draft attached) |
Assigned Tasks
- dirk: 2016 budget Friday, March 4
Proposed Budget
| Board meeting 11/2/2016 | Amount | Jan–August | Sept–dec | (Budget Increase) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Admin | 9.000,00 | 6000 | 3000 | (4500) | administration overhead |
| 2. Insurance | 3.200,00 | 2133 | 1067 | (0) | |
| 3. SAC | 12.800,00 | 9633 | 3167 | (10800) | infrastructure and online presence |
| 4. Outreach | 15.000 | 12500 | 2500 | (13000) | starter kits, LiveDVD/USB, Marketing, OSGeo Student Awards |
| 5. Travel | 15.000 | 7500 | 7500 | (11000) | director & president travel - facilitate interaction with external parties (UN, OGC,...) |
| 6. Events | 20.000 | 10000 | 10000 | (11000) | OSGeo internal (townhall, codesprint, ) and external (e.g.. ISPRS, EGU, GWF...) events |
| Total | 75.000 | 47.766 | 27.234 | (50.300) | This represents a 50k increase on last years budget |
This is the 2016 operating budget for OSGeo, prior to this baseline being set the board set a $150k floor (allowing for a year of minimal operating expenses ($50k) and two failed foss4g conferences ($50k x 2).
This is the 2016 operating budget for OSGeo, it does not cover:
- Multi-year costs associated with our annual FOSS4G conference.
- Budgets associated with individual projects (OpenLayers, MapServer, ...) are under their direction of their associated PSC.
OSGeo stepped down from playing an active role during our application for US 501(c)(4) status - we are now ready to take on this responsibility for committees and projects.
If your project or committee is interested in fundraising for an activity please ask the nearest board member for details on how we can help.