Board Meeting 2007 11 02

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of November 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 Eighth Board Meeting, and Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
• Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
• Approve GEOS to enter incubation
• Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
• Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
• Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
• Introduce OSGeo 2008 Budget and Role of Finance Committee - Discussion of any immediate Budget items that must be dealt with in short term before formal approval of Budget
• Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
• Discuss Cameron's email to the board titled Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support
• Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be expected from RFP responders.
• Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts
• Info from Dave M. re. kick-starting OSGeo installer initiative
• Deferred: Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).

Minutes

• Role call: Paul, Frank, Arnulf, Markus, Tyler, Chris
• Appoint meeting secretary: Tyler
• Review and approved Twenty Eighth Board Meeting
  • Frank moved, Markus seconds, all in favour, carried
• Review and approved Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
  • Deferred while confirming existance of minutes elsewhere
• Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
  • Incubation committee recommends graduation
  • Chris moves, Frank seconds, all in favour, carried
  • OpenLayers officially graduated
• Approve GEOS to enter incubation
  • Incubation committee recommending accepting GEOS into incubation
  • Frank moves, Chris seconds, all in favour, carried
  • Needs to add mentor to Trac ticket
  • GEOS officially in incubation
• Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
  • Paul moves, Chris seconds, alli n favour, carried
  • VisCom is now called Marketing
• Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
  • Frank moves, Chris seconds, all in favour, carried
  • Charlie and Ned are chairs of Education Committee]]
• Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
  • Arnulf moves, Frank seconds, all in favour, carried
  • David is now chair of Geodata committee
• Introduce OSGeo 2008 Budget and Role of Finance Committee - Discussion of any immediate Budget items that must be dealt with in short term before formal approval of Budget
  • Dave bringing budget forward in next meeting
• Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
  • Jody was unable to attend, deferred his part of the discussion
  • General discussion about why this is still a question, and what other projects are doing
  • Adrian Custer joined the discussion to present the current case
  • Question of whether Board needs to have some more discussion about OSGeo taking on fiduciary responsibility for projects
  • Chris to help get further review done, between Adrian, Jody and cc:'ing Arnulf
• Discuss Cameron's email to the board titled Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support
• Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be expected from RFP responders.
  • Lots of discussion
• Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts
  • Nothing to report
• Info from Dave M. re. kick-starting OSGeo installer initiative
  • Jeff McKenna will be starting discussions about bringing together the various installer platforms, i.e. MS4W and opening it up, but to include more OSGeo projects
• Deferred: Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).
• Arnulf had some discussion with IOSN. He will bring up item on list or in next meeting to discuss how/why/when OSGeo could associate with other organisations.
• Closing meeting 16:18UTC
  • Chris moves, Arnulf second, all in favour