Board Meeting 2008 08 08
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This board meeting has been scheduled for the 8th of August 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.
Communication will use the Conference Call facilities.
Agenda
- Appoint meeting secretary,
- Review and approve Board Meeting 2008 07 18 minutes.
- Review and approve Official OSGeo Event Policy.
- Approve 2007 Financial Reports (not passed through Finance Committee yet)
- Select officers - President, Treasurer and Secretary
- Update from Tyler
Minutes
Transcript available at: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2008-08-08.log
- Meeting start 15:07 UTC
- Attending: Ari, Arnulf, Frank, Howard, Markus, Tyler (5 directors, quorum)
- Appoint secretary: Tyler
- Review last meeting's minutes: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2008_07_18
- Arnulf moved to accept these meeting minutes, Frank seconded, all were in favour
- Review and approve Official OSGeo Event Policy
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Official_OSGeo_Event_Policy
- discussed the concepts of applying the policy
- MOTION: Jo moved to approve the policy, Frank seconded the motion, 0 from Arnulf, all others were in favour.. passed
- Approve 2007 Financial Reports ( not passed through Finance Committee yet )
- DRAFT - Financial Reports: http://osgeo.org/files/finance/reports.html
- interest in giving the finance committee approval instead of leaving it for another month
- MOTION: Hobu moved to accept the reports, pending the finance committee final approval, Jo seconded, all were in favour
- Select officers - President, Treasurer and Secretary
- Frank giving background..
- Both president and treasurer - have stepped down, so now is time for discussing these changing roles
- Frank is interested in the treasurer role
- MOTION: Arnulf moved to select Frank as Treasurer, all were in favour
- Discussed new president options, Arnulf is interested in the position
- President candidates: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
- MOTION: Frank moved to select Arnulf as President, all were in favour
- re: Secretary.. Tyler currently filling the position, Frank moved to leave him in the role.
- MOTION: Frank moved to leave Tyler as Secretary, all were in favour
- Discussing when new roles take effect
- General agreement to let new roles take effect immediately
- Update from Tyler ( http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tmitchell#Workload_and_Tasks )
- Tyler discussed highlights
- Frank moved to close the meeting, all were in favour
- Next meeting tentatively planned for 1st Friday of the month.. 5st of September
15:49 UTC ============= meeting done==============