Board Meeting 2014-02-06
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 6th of February 2014 at 20.00UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.
Agenda
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-12-16
- Discuss OSGeo Budget 2014
- possible item for the San Francisco Foundation Center to review our nonprofit status
- FOSS4G 2015 RFP plan and missing chair for conference committee
- Discuss OSGeo membership in GLTN. See also mail to board list. Arnulf will join the IRC chat to answer questions.
- Growing the OSGeo-Live PPA into a trusted source for packages -dbb
- GSoC 2014 (aghisla)
- add your items here
Minutes
- Attending: Jeff, Frank, Cameron, Bart, Gérald, Anne, Jorge
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Jorge
Assigned Tasks
- Cameron: raise a motion to approve Frank as member of the Conference Committe
Motions (to be confirmed by email)
- MOTION: Approve Board Meeting 2013-12-16 minutes:
- Frank/1: +1 7
- MOTION: The Board supports the GLTN membership proposal, as described by Arnulf on Board list
- Cameron/1: +1 7
- MOTION: The Board appoints Anne Ghisla and Hamish Bowman as OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 administrators.
- Frank/1: +1 7
Full, raw minutes notes
IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2014-02-06.log
- 20:00 Meeting starts
- 20:05 Minutes approved
- 20:08 Budget 2014
- Brian Hamlin: about S.Francisco Foundation Center to review our non-profit status, he have no contacted an attorney yet
- Frank: the item for the backup server can be dropped
- About the outreach item:
- Cameron: the marketing committee has not been working on the allocation of budget, so that item is misused
- Anne: the procedure to request outreach funds need work
- Discussion about the budget for travelling expenses
- To some community members it was a misuse of the budget to have the President on a dorm at FOSS4G 2014
- Anne disagrees on that criticism
- Jeff and Frank agree on raising the budget
- Cameron: code sprints can gain more value than attending (expensive) events
- Cameron: travel budget need a more detailed budget, some prevision of events to attend
- Jeff: maybe a separated meeting? this needs to be addressed soon
- Bart ask about how the 2013 budget was used
- Jeff: our first need for budgeting is an accountant/bookkeeper
- Bart: there should be budget for the (annual FOSS4G) benchmark
- Jeff: move this on the list
- 20:36 FOSS4G 2015 RFP
- Cameron: we should look for a paid role on those positions we don't have volunteers
- Bart: the plan for the RFP is to be published on a week
- Frank: the work load is small for the conference chair, he volunteers for the position
- Bart offers to help Frank on the role
- Bart: Frank has to be back on the committee (**task**)
- 20:45 OSGeo joining GLTN
- Discussion around the topic if GLTN is wanting to have training from OSGeo directly and the conflict with the non-profit status, Service Providers, etc
- Jeff points about not covering the time spent
- Arnulf states that joining GLTN will allow people with the time but not the money to cover travel costs to represent OSGeo
- General support on the idea of joining GLTN, Cameron raises the motion
- 20:57 OSGeo Live PPA
- Brian presents the idea
- Frank doesn't see a clear action item for the board
- Jeff has to move to next item
- 21:00 GSoC 2014
- Anne and Hamish will lead again OSGeo participation
- Frank motions to appoint them formally
- Next meeting agreed to be on March 6
- Meeting closes