Board Meeting 2015-07-17
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 17th of July 2015 at 16.00 UTC during FOSS4G-Europe, with follow up voting by email.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-06-18
- brief treasurer report
- FOSS4G 2015 update
- FOSS4G 2016 update
- request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee
- 2015 elections
- add your items here
Items from past meetings
- Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
- Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
- Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
- Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
- Marketing committee without a chair
- Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
- Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron [1]
- OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
- [UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project
Minutes
- Attending: Jeff, Jachym, Vasile, Anne, Maxi, Jorge, Mike (hangout)
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Jeff
Motions (confirmed by email)
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve past meeting's minutes | 7 | x | x | x | YES | |
Full, raw minutes notes
Treasurer Report
FOSS4G 2015 update
- seed funding agreement modified by Sanghee and Jeff during FOSS4G-Como, in terms of handling a financial loss. To be shared with the Board privately.
- registrations currently around 280
FOSS4G 2016 update
- planning meeting held during Como event
request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee
- Board appreciates proposed CoC committee
- 2 points must be clarified:
1) changes needed to structure:
- there should be no limitation on # of members (as other committees)
- need to name chair of committee
- should propose/vote in new members
2) changes needed to scope:
- committee reports about CoC incidents to the Board privately (board-priv mailing list)
- actions are only taken by the OSGeo Board
2015 elections
- discussion on history of changes to elections
- Vasile showed a page with a module to test thresholds
- there seem to be several options for the elections process
* leave as-is * change from 5% YES votes required to 50% or more YES votes required * specify how to handle the NO and ABSTAIN votes * change from YES/NO/ABSTAIN to a "1" or "0" * change to accepting a % of members * other?
next meeting date/time
- 13 August @ 14:00 UTC