Board Meeting 2015-08-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of August 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 2015-07-17
• brief treasurer report
• FOSS4G 2015 update
• FOSS4G 2016 update
• 2015 elections
• request to form a new Open_Geoscience_Committee (request)
• request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee (request)
• ICA MoU renewal at FOSS4G-Como
• refund for FOSDEM 2014 marketing materials (request)
• Incubation committee update: GeoNode has been accepted into incubation (with David Bitnear as mentor). We are likely to need a bit of help transferring code from OpenPlans (now defunct) to OSGeo.
• add your items here

Items from past meetings

• Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
• 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:
• Presiding:
• Scribing:

Motions (confirmed by email)

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