Board Meeting 2015-09-19
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 19th of September 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 2015-08-13
- brief treasurer report
- rasdaman discussion
Setting aside a % of funds for FOSS4G (request)- FOSS4G 2016 seed money and financial guarantee agreement recommended by Conference Committee (agreement download, list thread)
- Setup private file sharing system for the Board (paid DropBox accounts, or other options)
- FOSS4G process / transparence
- add your items here
Items from past meetings
Minutes
- Attending: Mike, Maxi, Jackym, Vasile, Jeff
- Presiding:
- Scribing:
- Approved last minute
- Tresurer report: ~57k USD seed money transferred, extension for tax filling
- Paypal account, need make a new account and transfer money from old to new
- Rasdaman: on OpenHub errouneously it is owned by osgeo, request to change it immediately. Jeff corrected it and apologize for the error.
- New board members require information to quickly get involved and active
- Election, charter members shall vote to continue with membership, we should cope with this
- Next week more details on results of election
- Membership process
Actions
- Mike create Paypal account
- Jeff ask Tyler for access details
- Jeff talk to CoC to acknowledge that the board think that also ethic misconducts is topic for CoC committee
- Vasile: Send info to new board members based on http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/49-OSGeo-Director-Retrospective.html
- New board: examine the election process and consider to adopt a nomination + second letters from other members and no veto to be **selected**, then if veto board could take a decision
Motions (confirmed by email)
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve past meeting's minutes | 5 | - | - | - | Yes | - |
| Create a new official Paypal account for OSGeo (and transfer the money from the old account) | 5 | - | - | - | Yes | - |
| OSGeo contact Web page: remove the form from the page and include the list of e-mails (board address, president, tresurer, discussion list, project mailing lists, etc..) | 5 | - | - | - | Yes | - |
| Use Google infrastructure for mails and drive space | 4 (-) | - | - | - | - | +1 from Mike, Maxi, Vasile, Jackym (to be voted on mail by other members) |
Full, raw minutes notes
- IRC Log at