UN Meeting 2015-11-17

This meeting is scheduled for the 17th of November 2015 at 16.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.

Agenda

Current items

Agenda:

• discuss structure of committee (chair, frequency of meetings)
• discuss goals of committee
• next steps
• please add your items here

Minutes

• Attending: Jeff McKenna, Jeroen Ticheler, Marco Minghini, Mikel Maron, Werner Leyh, Norman Vine, Vasile Craciunescu
• Presiding: Jeff
• Scribing: Jeff

Assigned Tasks

• [Sanghee] contact Mike for sending OSGeo seed money + FOSS4G surplus to OSGeo
• [All] arrange travel for Board F2F meeting, for 30/31 January in the Netherlands

Full, raw minutes notes

• IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-11-17.log

• 16:01 Meeting starts
• 16:16 Committee Structure
  • jeff: I of course will represent OSGeo at the table, when "the president" is required. i wasn't sure if the OSGeo committee chair should be different?
  • werner: I think for the committee jeff would be the best solution
  • Jeff volunteers as chair
  • all in support
• 14:07 Goals of the committee
  • jeroen: Focus on software (applications) and education?
  • werner: I told about openstreetmap , that does not mean that I will focus on data , but OSM is extremely important for our apps and should be on the table
• 15:14 Next meeting time: 2015/12/10 + 14:00UTC Board Meeting 2015-12-10