Board Meeting 2015-05-21

This board meeting is scheduled for the 21st of May 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

roll call
appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-04-09
brief treasurer report
Approve OSGeo Code of Conduct, as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Of_Conduct
Clarify rules on letters of support (Protocol for requesting letter of support)
FOSS4G 2015 update
FOSS4G 2016 update
Finalize OSGeo Budget 2015
Request for sponsorship for "Open Source Comes to Campus" - Algeria, October 2015. See request to the Board list
Travel etc. expenses discussion for FOSS4G 2016 going to 2015 and for next years
Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
Incubation: PyWPS to enter incubation with Tom Kralidis as mentor. Committee membership has been adjusted based on participation.

Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
- Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
- Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
- Marketing committee without a chair
Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron [1]
OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
[UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project

Also attended:

See email thread on the Board list.

Motion	+1	0	-1	Abstain	Passed?	Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes	x	x	x	x	Yes/No	x