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

Revision as of 20:00, 6 April 2010

This board meeting is scheduled for the 1st of April 2010 at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).

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
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 6h00 log server time.

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 * Officers discussion
 * OSGeo has been invited to formally appear as an Institutional Partner at the [http://www.mapworldforum.org/ World Map Forum 2011]. Chance to organize speakers, potentially conduct workshops and/or code sprints, etc.
-* Formation of Vietnam OSGeo Local Chapter
+* Formation of [[Vietnam]] OSGeo Local Chapter
 * The [[Sénégal]] OSGeo Chapter in formation plans for a conference in June. They ask whether they can call it "OSGeo@Dakar".
 * Director updates