Difference between revisions of "Board Meeting 2009-01-09"

Latest revision as of 05:13, 3 April 2009

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 9th of January 2009 at 17:00 UTC (fixedtime), by Skype and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will be using Skype voice, initiated by ~~Tyler~~ Arnulf. Be sure to give him your Skype username.

Appoint meeting secretary
Review and approve Board Meeting 2008-12-12 minutes.
Motion: Award FOSS4G2010 Conference Hosting to Barcelona, Spain team - see message to board
Approve Poland Local Chapter - see this request
Approve United Kingdom Local Chapter - see their Terms of Reference
Approve Chris Schmidt as WebCom chair [1] - WebCom already happily approved.
Sponsorship strategy and updates from board
Update from Tyler
Confirm 2009-02-06 as date for the next meeting
add new items here....

IRC logs are here starting at 08:00.
Attending: Arnulf, Markus, Ari, Howard, Paul, Bob
Paul taking minutes, Arnulf chairing
Review minutues Board_Meeting_2008-12-12
- Arnulf moves approval, Howard seconds, APPROVED: previous minutes approved
Approve Barcelona as 2010 FOSS4G site
- Arnulf notes that approval was already given via e-mail process
- APPROVED: Barcelona approved as 2010 FOSS4G site
Add Poland Local Chapter
- Ari moves to accept, Arnulf seconds, APPROVED: local chapter for Poland approved
Add UK Local Chapter
- Arnulf moves to accept, Paul seconds, APPROVED: local chapter for UK approved
Chris Schmidt to head WebCom
- WebCom has already indicated their approval
- Arnulf moves to accept, Howard seconds, APPROVED: Chris Schmidt approved as WebCom chair
Discussion of sponsorship and finding sponsors
- Status update from Arnulf
- Status update from Ari
- General question from Arnulf about effectiveness of current procedure
Set date for next meeting: February 6, 2009
- Arnulf moves, Bob seconds, APPROVED: Next board meeting will be February 6, 2009
Howard questions, "what board members are going to the Toronto Code Sprint 2009?
- Paul, Frank, Howard
- Arnulf suggests having a board meeting during that period so some folks can be in the same room and others skyped in.
- General agreement.
Close of meeting
- Arnulf moves to close, second Paul, meeting adjourns.

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 This board meeting has been scheduled for the 9th of January 2009 at 17:00 UTC ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=01&day=09&year=2009&hour=17&min=0&sec=0 fixedtime]), by Skype and IRC ([irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo #osgeo]) at the same time.