Board Meeting 2013-10-17

This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of October 2013 at [1] 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 2013-08-15
• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-09-20

• Discuss FOSS4G LOC vs OSGeo involvement
  • Need to setup processes for managing FOSS4G
    • Template Contract with PCO
    • Non-profit aspects (taxes vs PCO, extending nonprofit status to LOC, etc.)
    • See email from PDX committee

• Incubation committee
  • IncCom_Report23
  • recommends Marble GIS for graduation (see Marble_Graduation_Checklist), project officer will be Torsten Rahn, press release draft: Press Release Marble Virtual Globe Graduates Incubation

• Approve Code_Sprint_Guidelines - cfr. aghisla

• Make a formal motion about potential inactive Charter members
  • Proposal: Current OSGeo Charter members who have not voted in the last two board elections will be invited (via email) to move from the current OSGeo-Charter member list to a Past OSGeo Charter Members list, and will loose their voting rights. These emailed members may either respond with a commitment to vote in future board elections, or be moved. Not responding within 3 weeks would result in being moved.

• Discuss possibility of extended Board meeting re: OSGeo priorities
  • Discuss OSGeo vision, mission, objectives, policies updates
  • Possible business-dev position to manage sponsor relations
  • Setup one or more working groups?
  • SAC issues

• Discuss OSGeo involvement with partner organizations:
  • Building OSGeo-OGC synergies in Geospatial Education (following up discussions at FOSS4G 2013)
  • OGC, LocationTech, OSGeo Sponsors, (others?)
  • Need champions for each one?

• OSGeo servers infrastructure for FOSS4G-* conferences (FOSS4G-E in this case, web server, mailing lists, several mail addresses).
  • Is it common, what about other teams, how did they do it?
  • Is it required, does OSGeo want to provide such infrastructure?

• add your items here

• Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
• Schedule next meeting

Deferred items from last meeting (please move up selected items)

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Minutes

• Attending:

• Presiding:

• Scribing:

Assigned Tasks

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Motions

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Full, raw minutes notes

• Full IRC log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2013-10-17.log

• [20:00 UTC] start