Board Meeting 2014-02-06

This board meeting is scheduled for the 6th of February 2014 at 20.00UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-12-16
• Discuss OSGeo Budget 2014
  • possible item for the San Francisco Foundation Center to review our nonprofit status
• FOSS4G 2015 RFP plan and missing chair for conference committee
• Discuss OSGeo membership in GLTN. See also mail to board list. Arnulf will join the IRC chat to answer questions.
• Growing the OSGeo-Live PPA into a trusted source for packages -dbb
  • http://ct.light42.com/www_shared/PPA-situation-present.txt
• GSoC 2014 (aghisla)
• add your items here

Minutes

• Attending: Jeff, Frank, Cameron, Bart, Gérald, Anne, Jorge
• Presiding: Jeff
• Scribing: Jorge

Assigned Tasks

• Cameron: raise a motion to approve Frank as member of the Conference Committe

Motions (to be confirmed by email)

• MOTION: Approve Board Meeting 2013-12-16 minutes:
  • Frank/1: +1 7
• MOTION: The Board supports the GLTN membership proposal, as described by Arnulf on Board list
  • Cameron/1: +1 7
• MOTION: The Board appoints Anne Ghisla and Hamish Bowman as OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 administrators.
  • Frank/1: +1 7

Full, raw minutes notes

IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2014-02-06.log

• 20:00 Meeting starts
• 20:05 Minutes approved
• 20:08 Budget 2014
  • Brian Hamlin: about S.Francisco Foundation Center to review our non-profit status, he have no contacted an attorney yet
  • Frank: the item for the backup server can be dropped
  • About the outreach item:
    • Cameron: the marketing committee has not been working on the allocation of budget, so that item is misused
    • Anne: the procedure to request outreach funds need work
  • Discussion about the budget for travelling expenses
    • To some community members it was a misuse of the budget to have the President on a dorm at FOSS4G 2014
    • Anne disagrees on that criticism
    • Jeff and Frank agree on raising the budget
    • Cameron: code sprints can gain more value than attending (expensive) events
    • Cameron: travel budget need a more detailed budget, some prevision of events to attend
    • Jeff: maybe a separated meeting? this needs to be addressed soon
  • Bart ask about how the 2013 budget was used
  • Jeff: our first need for budgeting is an accountant/bookkeeper
  • Bart: there should be budget for the (annual FOSS4G) benchmark
  • Jeff: move this on the list
• 20:36 FOSS4G 2015 RFP
  • Cameron: we should look for a paid role on those positions we don't have volunteers
  • Bart: the plan for the RFP is to be published on a week
  • Frank: the work load is small for the conference chair, he volunteers for the position
  • Bart offers to help Frank on the role
  • Bart: Frank has to be back on the committee (**task**)
• 20:45 OSGeo joining GLTN
  • Discussion around the topic if GLTN is wanting to have training from OSGeo directly and the conflict with the non-profit status, Service Providers, etc
  • Jeff points about not covering the time spent
  • Arnulf states that joining GLTN will allow people with the time but not the money to cover travel costs to represent OSGeo
  • General support on the idea of joining GLTN, Cameron raises the motion
• 20:57 OSGeo Live PPA
  • Brian presents the idea
  • Frank doesn't see a clear action item for the board
  • Jeff has to move to next item
• 21:00 GSoC 2014
  • Anne and Hamish will lead again OSGeo participation
  • Frank motions to appoint them formally
• Next meeting agreed to be on March 6
• Meeting closes