Board Meeting 2011-12-08
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 8th of December 2011 at 17:00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype.
Agenda
- Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2011-11-10
- Appoint secretary
- Action items from last meeting
- Frank: try to contact RCMRD once more re: MOU
- mpg: get a google voice phone number for OSGeo
- Mark: continue email threads on NA chapter formation
- Jeff: prepare proposal for aiding Beijing LOC (proposal) (discussion)
- Arnulf: send out summary of meeting to discuss list (due Nov 17th) (done)
- Jo: form bylaws team
- mpg: send out motions for formal voting
- Incubation: GeoMoose and Rasdaman accepted by the incubation committee; looking for volunteers to mentor existing projects (i.e. GeoServer)
- Incubation: Graduate PostGIS (given that the vote has been concluded in the Incubation Committee see motion at: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2011-December/001703.html)
- Charter Member Election Report
- Finances update
- (Motion to) establish a North America Region Chapter OSGeo-NA
- Discuss how to proceed with FOSS4G 2012 in Beijing. Urgent and important!
- 2012 Budget Brainstorm
- please add items
Minutes
- logistics
- detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-12-08.log
- Attending: Frank, mpg, Daniel, Arnulf[left at 9:47], Tim, Jo, Peter, Jeff, Mark [joined 9:40]
- Absent: (none)
- Chair: Frank
- Scribe: mpg
- [9:00] start, roll call
- review past minutes
- all motions passed by email
- minutes approved (1/Frank, 2/Daniel, all +1)
- [9:15] review action items
- Frank passed RCMRD info to Jeff
- mpg got a phone number: 801-896-7436(801-VXOSGEO), currently all forwarded to info@osgeo.com
- Jeff's Beijing proposal was prepared
- seven did summarize the last mtg to the mailling list
- no action yet on bylaws by Jo
- [9:18] incubation committee work
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IncCom_Meeting15
- motion to incubate GeoMoose w/ JodyG as mentor: 1/Frank, 2/Jeff, all +1
- motion to incubate Rasdaman: 1/Frank, 2/mpg, all +1
- PostGis not graduated from Incubation, due to provenance issues; defer to next week
- [9:28] charter members election
- 21 elected instead of 20 (due to tie)
- announcements sent out
- mpg to update database, etc, over the holidays
- [9:36] finance update
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av9Xf1ehZXz-dDB3VVhGUm5kdmdMZFJBdHUxME5OZnc#gid=0
- $12K balance at end Nov, plus $65K FOSS4G and $10K Ordanance Survey
- another $60K from FOSS4G to come
- Frank still to work on a budget document
- [9:44] NA chapter
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/North_America_Regional#Official_expression_of_interest_to_form_a_North_America_Regional_chapter_of_the_OSGeo_Foundation
- much discussion
- motion to approve chapter - MarkL/1, Jo/2...
- mpg -1, Frank -1, Jeff +0, Daniel +0, Jo +0, Mark +1, Arnulf (absent), Peter +0, Tim +0
- motion failed; concerns centered on organizational structure, concerns about the conference
- [10:31] foss4g "support person" proposal
- discussion about aspects of Jeff's proposal
- motion to pay Jeff to fly out to Beijing and report back on their readiness, staffing, plans, etc -- at travel costs, plus 4d at $640US/d
- mpg/1, pmbatty/2, all +1
- [11:04] motion to close mtg
- Frank/1, Mark/2, all +1
- next meeting: Jan 12th
Assigned Tasks
- mpg: collect formal motion votes
- seven: report on this meeting to mailing list
- Jo: bylaws work
- IncCom: try to graduate PostGIS at next mtg
- mpg: update membership DB
- Frank: budget document
Motions
- approve last meeting minutes (1/Frank, 2/Daniel, all +1)
- incubate GeoMoose w/ JodyG as mentor (1/Frank, 2/Jeff, all +1)
- incubate Rasdaman (1/Frank, 2/mpg, all +1)
- motion to approve NA chapter - MarkL/1, Jo/2 (mpg -1, Frank -1, Jeff +0, Daniel +0, Jo +0, Mark +1, Arnulf 0, Peter +0, Tim +0)
- motion to pay Jeff to fly out to Beijing and report back on their readiness, staffing, plans, etc -- at travel costs, plus 4d at $640US/d (mpg/1, pmbatty/2, all +1)
- motion to close meeting (Frank/1, Mark/2, all +1)