Board Meeting 2015-11-12

This board meeting is scheduled for the 12th of November 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

Current items

Agenda:

• roll call
• appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
• Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-10-15
• brief treasurer report (including sponsors list)
• updates on Board Face to Face Meeting 2015
• FOSS4G 2016 update

As time permits:

• GeoServer Janurary code sprint
• Quick GeoTools update
• clarify Geo4all position within OSGeo: 1) Vote to move the related document to OSGeo wiki; 2) Approve to take up discussions with the Geo4All Advisory Board based on the draft.
• information about the potential UCGIS MOU, distribution of the draft document proposed by UCGIS

Minutes

• Attending: Anita, Mike, Sanghee, Jeff, Helena, Maxi, Jody, Vasile, Venka
• Presiding: Jeff
• Scribing: Jeff

Assigned Tasks

• [Sanghee] contact Mike for sending OSGeo seed money + FOSS4G surplus to OSGeo
• [Jeff] ask 2016 committee if the "topic talks" is open (can someone like the FAO hold a session?)

Motions (confirmed by email)

See email thread on the Board list.

Motion	+1	0	-1	Abstain	Passed?	Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes	0	0	0	0
OSGeo to pay for travel and arrangements at FOSS4G Bonn for all board members if a F2F board meeting is planned for there	0	0	0	0

Full, raw minutes notes

• IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-11-12.log

• 13:59 Meeting starts
• 14:03 MOTION: Approve past meeting minutes, 8 votes in favour, passed
• 14:05 Treasurer report from Mike Smith
  • Used OSGeo credit card for purchasing travel for some board members for the January F2F meeting
  • Now has online access to OSGeo credit card
  • OSGeo credit card will be brought to the January F2F meeting
  • please contact Mike regarding travel reimbursement for F2F right away
  • no progress on contacting sponsors
  • Sanghee to contact Mike for sending OSGeo seed money + FOSS4G surplus to OSGeo
• 14:07 Updates on F2F Meeting in January -all
  • anita, jody to plan their trips
  • mike, jeff, sanghee have their trips booked
  • mike suggests to add agenda item for official stance/policy/guidelines on working with LocationTech
• 14:18 FOSS4G 2016 Update from Jeff
  • LOC has an idea to have "topic talks" - 90 minute slots led by an organization, like LocationTech or OSGeo, or OGC, or UN
  • will the slots be open or closely decided by LOC?
  • Anita is in contact with Astrid concerning some hacking before the event
  • from Maxi: jeff can you ask LOC about the call for the slot and report? What is your view?
  • jeff: i can definitely ask. I think the talks can be suggested by the org, but approved by the 2016 committee
  • maxi: maybe FAO is interested and could participate in the slot assignment for instance...
  • anita: I assume board members pay the same conference fee as other attendants, right? (Have to plan my conference budget for next year
  • jeff: all board travel could be covered if there is an official function as a F2F meeting
  • MOTION for OSGeo to pay for travel and arrangements at FOSS4G Bonn for all board members if a F2F board meeting is planned for there, 2 in favour, not passed
• 14:33 FOSS4G 2017 Update from Sanghee
• 16:10 Next meeting time: 2015/04/09 + 15:00UTC Board Meeting 2015-04-09