Board Meeting 2007 03 23

This board meeting has been tentatively scheduled for the 23rd of March at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

• Appoint meeting secretary
• Review and approve Twenty Fifth Board Meeting minutes
• Consider VisCom Budget 2007 (if updated)
• Consider ka-map for OSGeo hosting, SAC willing.
• Consider appointing corporate secretary to replace Rich. Perhaps Tyler?
• Approve Proposed Board Election Procedure.
• Approve Membership Process.
• Review rough cash flow summaries (Tyler)
• Open Technology conference - general discussion (Tyler and others)
• Brief discussion about invite from Promote GIS (Tyler)
• FOSS4G contract update (Tyler)
• Insurance update (Tyler)

Minutes

• Appoint meeting secretary
  • Present: Jo, Tyler, Venka, Frank, Chris, Markus, Dave
  • Tyler secretary

• Review and approve Twenty Fifth Board Meeting minutes
  • Dave moved, second Frank, all in favour

• Consider VisCom Budget 2007 (if updated)
  • Not updated, skipping

• Consider ka-map for OSGeo hosting, SAC willing.
  • As an informal project only using hosting services, but also considering applying to incubation
  • Board discussing that ka-map fits general goals
  • Reviewing the general idea of hosting indirectly
  • Dave moved, second Frank, all in favour
  • Left to SAC to decide

• Consider appointing corporate secretary to replace Rich. Perhaps Tyler?
  • Discussing tracking role of position
  • Many tasks Tyler is already doing
  • Frank moved, Jo second, all in favour
  • TODO: Tyler - summary of Secretary position responsibilities - see standard roles from other groups
  • TODO: Tyler - let Rich know about change

• Approve Proposed Board Election Procedure.
  • discussing some of the issues around timing as in talk page comments
  • Frank moved, Chris second, all in favour

• Approve Membership Process.
• Review rough cash flow summaries (Tyler)
• Open Technology conference - general discussion (Tyler and others)
• Brief discussion about invite from Promote GIS (Tyler)
• FOSS4G contract update (Tyler)
• Insurance update (Tyler)