Board Meeting 2015-11-12
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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] Sanghee to 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 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes | |
| Release full amount requested by OpenLayers PSC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes | |
| Approve Bonn as the host city for FOSS4G 2016 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes | |
| Accept istSOS into incubation | 8 | 1 (Maxi +0) | 0 | 0 | Yes | Maxi is part of the istSOS team |
| Accept pycsw as a graduated OSGeo project | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes | |
| Support a letter to OGC on schemas distribution | 8 | 1 (Bart +0) | 0 | 0 | Yes |
Full, raw minutes notes
- 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...
- 15:42 Incubation status update from Jody Garnett
- MOTION: Accept istSOS into incubation, 7 in favour, Maxi abstains, passed
- MOTION: Accept pycsw as a graduated OSGeo project, 8 in favour, passed
- Angelos will be appointed as project VP
- Officers page will have to be updated (task)
- Jody asks the Board to officially contact OGC to unlock the OGC schemas distribution problem
- OGC is already acknowledged of this, but a formal request would help
- A letter will be drafted at OGC XML Schemas and FOSS4G Software Distribution by Jeff (task)
- MOTION: Support a letter to OGC on schemas distribution policy, 7 in favour, passed
- 15:53 ICA OSGeo ISPRS Student awards
- Discussion about the motion that wasn't passed on the allocation of funds for the awards
- More feedback from Suschith is needed, Maxi will contact him, so the motion has to wait
- Some discussion about the affiliation of GeoForAll.
- 15:59 Codehaus shut down from Jody
- CodeHaus is shutting down so a number of OSGeo projects and close friends are having trouble on finding a new home for their hosting needs (tickets mainly apparently)
- Board members express their full support to help them
- Jody will keep the board updated on how this process goes
- 16:06 Quick note from Anne about OSGeo being accepted for GSoC 2015
- 16:10 Next meeting time: 2015/04/09 + 15:00UTC Board Meeting 2015-04-09