Board Meeting 2009-01-09

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.

Agenda

• 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....

Minutes

• 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.