Difference between revisions of "Board Meeting 2010-04-08"

Revision as of 01:38, 8 April 2010

This board meeting is scheduled for the 8th of April 2010 at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).

Was postponed from April 1st

Adopt previous minutes
Officers discussion
OSGeo has been invited to formally appear as an Institutional Partner at the World Map Forum 2011. Chance to organize speakers, potentially conduct workshops and/or code sprints, etc.
Formation of Vietnam OSGeo Local Chapter
Formation of California chapter - see email and its attachment
The Sénégal OSGeo Chapter in formation plans for a conference in June. They ask whether they can call it "OSGeo@Dakar".
Director updates
- http://www.gislab.up.wroc.pl/wogis2010/en/ Conference in Poland (Arnulf)
- Thoughts on funding and payment for "OSGeo ambassador" activities (Arnulf)
- Discuss expenses for Jeff McKenna's recent Vietnam chapter trip
Update from Tyler - follow up questions.
- Sponsorship: Arnulf reports from experience with FOSS4G 2010 preparation. Discussion how to combine and reuse the FOSS4G efforts with general OSGeo
- Discuss role of events in OSGeo. FOSS4G is now our primary fundraiser (higher return than highest sponsor). Can/should we do more events and focus on them for fundraising? FOSS4G is an OSGeo brand that makes revenue.
- Funding et Sponsorship Committee reloaded

Complete IRC logs are here, start at 7h00 log server time.

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 [[Category:Board Meetings 2010]]
-This board meeting is scheduled for the 1st of April 2010 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=04&day=01&hour=15&min=0&sec=0 at 15:00 UTC], on IRC ([irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo #osgeo]).
+This board meeting is scheduled for the 8th of April 2010 [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=04&day=08&hour=15&min=0&sec=0 at 15:00 UTC], on IRC ([irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo #osgeo]).
+ Was postponed from April 1st
 == Agenda ==