Board Meeting 2007 11 02
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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.
- 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).