Board Meeting 2015-06-18

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This board meeting is scheduled for the 18th of June 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

Current items

  • roll call
  • appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
  • Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-05-21
  • brief treasurer report
  • FOSS4G 2015 update
  • FOSS4G 2016 update
  • Formal request to form Belgian chapter
  • Begin OSGeo Election 2015 process for Charter and Board membership
  • 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)
  • Request for funding OSGeo President's travel to FOSS4G Seoul conference.(request)
  • Face2face meeting in Como
  • add your items here

Items from past meetings

  • 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

Minutes

  • Attending: Jeff, Gerald, Vasile, Maxi, Michael, Jachym, Jorge, Bart (partly), Anne (partly)
  • Presiding: Jeff
  • Scribing: Vasile

brief treasurer report

  • link to PayPal account is broken. a new OSGeo will be created by Mike.
  • have received money from Canada account will deposit this weekend

FOSS4G 2015 update

  • presentations/ academic track review decision announced
  • early bird registration closes on June 22
  • jeff requested an OSGeo booth

FOSS4G 2016 update

  • things look to be moving well. active mailing list.


Assigned Tasks

Motions (confirmed by email)

See email thread on the Board list.

Motion +1 0 -1 Abstain Passed? Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes x x x x

Full, raw minutes notes