Board Meeting 2013-07-11

This board meeting is scheduled for the 11th of July 2013 at 12.00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email.

Agenda

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-06-13
• Charter/Board elections update; Decision on how many new Charter Members are to be added (as per our by laws this year between 14 and 48)
• support for QGIS HackFest (sept 12-16) email
  • asking for second installment: 750 USD
• OSGeo Booth at Nottingham
  • Offer of booth from LOC; do we accept?
    • booth size needed?
    • Who to manage booth duty volunteers
      • possibly Jeff to setup wiki and distribute call-for-volunteers
• OSGeo servers security issues
• OSGeo Incubation Report 2013 Q2 IncCom_Report22 (ie chair reporting periodically - User:Jive )
  • Process stalled for long-term projects, recommend allowing projects to retire from incubation (and invite them to reapply when ready)
• Changes needed to Elections process
  • documented at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category_talk:Elections
  • likely needs to be put on hold until after elections, but, important to followup later
• Need to update bylaws http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
  • possible half-day virtual meeting to go through necessary changes?
  • suggestion by AdrianC: Board could produce an authoritative list of all the wiki pages considered to be approved amendments to the bylaws
• Repairing the OSGeo Service Providers page
  • volunteers/funding specialists/something
  • UPDATE: IanEdwards joining WebCom to help with Drupal
• OGC Board / OSGeo Board meetup in Nottingham
  • update from Arnulf?
  • OGC very keen for this
• add your items here
• Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
• Schedule next meeting

Minutes

• Attending:

• Presiding:

• Scribing: