Board Meeting 2009-11-05

This board meeting is scheduled for the 5th of November 2009 at 15:00 UTC at 15:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo).

TODO: Arnulf to make motion to change voting protocols via email list. What exactly was this all about?

Agenda

• Appoint meeting secretary
• Approve minutes for Board Meeting 2009-10-08
• Approve FOSS4G 2010 contract (please be prepared and discuss via email prior to this meeting!)
• Executive Positions and Board responsibilities.
• Report from Incubation Committee
  • MapFish is recommended for incubation with Gary Sherman as mentor.
  • GeoServer is recommended for incubation with Richard Gould as mentor.
• Report from FOSS4G 2009
• add your points

Minutes

IRC Logs Here - starting at 07h00

Attendees

• Directors:
  • Arnulf Christl, Howard Butler, Chris Schmidt, Markus Neteler, Ari Jolma, Ravi Kumar, Jeff McKenna
• Staff: Tyler Mitchell (Executive Director, Secretary)

NOTE this meeting was through Internet chat (IRC), therefore was not an official meeting

Discussion Points and Decisions

• FOSS4G2010 contract
  • must wait til Lorenzo and Grupo Pacifico come up with final version
  • proposed contract was reviewed in Sydney (paul, tyler, arnulf, ticheler, lorenzo, jeff)
    • jeff, tyler, arnulf to send contract to board list when Grupo Pacifico approves contract

• Executive Positions and Board Responsibilities
  • http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Executive_Positions
  • Arnulf to come up with Roles of board members
  • president role
    • support for Seven to continue as president
      • supported by frank, markus, chris, howard, jeff, ari, ravi

• Report from Incubation Committee
  • committee recommends MapFish and GeoServer
  • also hopes that degree becomes recommended for graduation soon
  • struggle to find enough mentor volunteers
  • possible additional reqmts for OSGeo projects
    • http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2009-October/001327.html
    • task: arnulf to ask incubation committe on recommendation to move the copyright of projects to OSGeo
    • task: all board members asked to join incubation
  • frank dissatisfied with availability of members. committee is 'doing the role i see for it"
  • arnulf wonders if committeee should have greater responsibility for graduated projects
  • arnulf suggests we have one project report from one project per board meeting

Action Summary

• TODO:
  • jeff, tyler, arnulf to send FOSS4G2010 contract to board list when Grupo Pacifico approves contract
  • Arnulf to come up with Roles of board members
  • arnulf to ask incubation committe on recommendation to move the copyright of projects to OSGeo
  • all board members asked to join incubation