Board Meeting 2008 05 02

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of May 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

Communication will use the Conference Call facilities.

Agenda

Appoint meeting secretary,
Review and approve Thirty Fifth Board Meeting minutes.
Approve GeoNetwork graduation from incubation with Jeroen Ticheler as "VP, GeoNetwork". (see GeoNetwork Incubation Status)
Approve deegree for entrance into incubation - http://www.deegree.de/ - Application ticket
Approve FOSS4G Budget, and LOA with GISSA.
Declare official Support for Cascadoss
Create a new page for Board Election 2008 and update documents and processes on the Board page
update Charter Membership Process pages
Proposed general OSGeo Membership process with user pages and discuss OSGeo member mashup (Arnulf)
Update from Tyler

In attendance Frank, Markus, Bob, Paul, Jo, Chris
Approve meeting minutes from Thirty Fifth Board Meeting - Paul proposes, Frank seconds, all were in favour.

GeoNetwork graduates from incubation
- MOTION Frank motioned that GeoNetwork graduates from incubation, as approved by the Incubation committee. All were in favour.

- decision already approved by incubation committee
- chris wonders about long list of projects, duplicate functionality confusing? frank says there are points of no overlap
- discussion of has there been enough diligence done in making sure there is consent from both commercial backers + development community at large for incubation

- MOTION Frank motions to accept deegree into incubation. Jo seconds, all were in favour.

Approve FOSS4G2008 budget
- Noted that we need more interconnect between mainstream OSGeo and FOSS4G organisers this year
- Need final signoff on the profit/loss-sharing agreement with GISSA
- MOTION by Paul to approve FOSS4G2008's budget, Markus seconds, all were in favour

Approval of letter of Support for CASCADOSS
Markus summary of his connections with CASCADOSS
We will all find out more about it in June
- MOTION to offer public support for CASCADOSS, Markus proposes, Frank seconds, all were in favour

Create a new page for Board Election 2008 and update documents and processes on the Board page
- Action is deferred
- The number of new members will be between 10% and one third of the existing charter membership count as decided by the board. - 15 additional members
- MOTION, Frank moves to add 15 additional Charter Members in 2008, Bob seconds, all were in favour