Board Meeting 2017-12-07

This board meeting is scheduled for 7 December 2017 (first Thursday of each month) at [1] through IRC and follow up voting on Loomio.

Agenda

roll call
appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
Approve previous meeting minutes
Review action items from previous meeting
Discussion about Officer positions (President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer)
urgent item: signature for web hosting contract
Draft 2018 budget update (funds for website management need to be added, make it a funded position?)
Review/revise sponsors program for 2018
Project reviews
Discuss alternative to Dropbox
Relationship with AGU & possible MoU (thread)
Note: Request to leverage GSoC 500 USD grant for 1 student's travel to FOSDEM devroom 2018 (thread) has been approved via Loomio.
Usage of OSGeo logo and name - see style guide
Discuss possibility of a Charter Members meeting, as part of the OSGeo Code Sprint in March (thread)
Report on the on-going Google Code-In (jmckenna)
OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 - where shall we transfer the sponsors money to? Which account? Account in Europe will be opened in March -> too late

Action 1: Jeff McKenna to send project review document to board.

Action 2: Angelos: Face to face meeting planning move discussion to the mailing list.

No progress reported by Angelos
Discussion had taken place in previous meeting
Options available: (Video F2F meetings, F2F in GeoCat offices, Bonn Code Sprint to reduce travel costs)
Maria A to make Doodle polls for date selection.

Action 3: Angelos to ask more projects to report to the next Board meeting

No new projects were asked to participate, in order to address urgent board items.

Action 4: Even to add new OSGeo logo to gdal.org (Done)

Action 5: Torsten to compile a project report for Marble and send to the board - no progress

Action 6: Torsten to add new OSGeo logo to Marble page - no progress

Action 7: Jeff, Maria B and Vasile to call for volunteers for the Geodata Committee (Done)

Codrina, MariaB, Vasile, Jeff received many enthusiastic volunteers to help get the OSGeo Geodata committee moving again. We are now planning our next steps together.
This renewed call would be a great plan for other committees, such as the OSGeo finance committee, a really great way to get community volunteers.
We should wait those new volunteers discuss what they want to do and perhaps get a new mandate.

Angelos to send e-mail to mailing list to start the process for the project review document (Done right after the meeting)
Face to face meeting planning move discussion to the mailing list (Done by Maria A right after the meeting)
Angelos to ask more projects to report to the next Board meeting
Torsten to compile a project report for Marble and send to the board
Torsten to add new OSGeo logo to Marble page
Jeff to update the Geodata committee wiki page with a call for volunteers

MOT1: Approve board meeting minutes 2017-11-21.

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