Board Meeting 2015-10-15
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This board meeting is scheduled for the 15th of October 2015 at 14.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.
Agenda
Current items
- roll call
- appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
- Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-08-13
- brief treasurer report (including sponsors list)
- naming a president, treasurer, secretary for 2015/2016
- On behalf of the OSGeo Foundation, the Board express deep sympathies and condolences to Frank Wamerdam, Former President of OSGeo
- Cover travel expenses for President to attend OpenGIS conference in Moscow http://gisconf.ru/
- Cover costs of the Build a Drone Workshop at FOSS4G-Seoul
- discuss working with the UN-GIS team. Including an invite to join a working group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
- pick 2 days for a Board face-to-face meeting (or "Board Sprint") to outline goals and vision for the foundation
- Setup private file sharing system for the Board (paid DropBox accounts, or other options) see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_infrastructure and https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1547
- clarify Geo4all position within OSGeo and cancel the Edu-Committe as it is non active and already replaced by geo4all (see osgeo main page) - rather than canceling the vote should be about a transition from Edu-committee to geo4all - it will take some time and effort to make sure the infrastructure is not lost and it is properly labeled
- ISPRS_2016 coordination
- discuss possibility of OSGeo software signing certificates [Anita] (i.e. OSX seems to not allow installation of unsigned software by default --> user needs to change configuration --> signed software would appear more professional. On the QGIS mailing list, we were discussing that we could have a QGIS.org certificate but since QGIS depends on so many other OSGeo tools - which would also have to be signed - it might be more appropriate to have an OSGeo certificate.)
- add your items here
Items from past meetings
Minutes
- Attending: Mike, Maxi, Jeff, Anita, Venka, Sanghee, Jody, Helena, Vasile, Jachym (Secretary)
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Vasile
- Approved last minute;
- Tresurer report: Jeff and Mike are currently working with PayPal to properly transfer the Canadian PayPal account to a new US one; For late 2014 - 2015 we only had one sponsor of OSGeo and that was Alan Moore of ThinkWare that was an Associate Sponsor - a sponsor clean up is required; We are in the process on finalizing our 2014 IRS filing; CT Corp was paid for the next year OSGeo Incorporation;
- Mike, Jachym and Jeff are willing to continue in their current positions as treasurer, secretary and president;
- OSGeo will be represented by Jeff at the OpenGIS conference in Moscow (http://gisconf.ru/);
- OSGeo should create a working group dedicated to work with the UN-GIS team;
- The board members should pick 2 days for a Board face-to-face meeting (or "Board Sprint");
- OSGeos Education and Curriculum Effort is no longer active and should be replaced by the GeoForAll initiative. Further discussions and clarifications on the mailing list are required;
- Further discussions on the ML are also required for the ISPRS_2016 coordination;
- Code Signing Certificates: $500 approved annually, details to be sorted out on SAC mailing list with QGIS representatives.
- We will try to limit the IRC meetings to 1 hour. The board should consider bimonthly meetings in the future.
Motions (confirmed by email)
| Motion | +1 | 0 | -1 | Abstain | Passed? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approve past meeting's minutes | 8 | - | - | - | Yes | - |
| OSGeo board should be given write access to the drupal website | 8 | - | - | - | Yes | - |
| Confirm Jeff, Mike and Jachym for another term as president, treasurer and secretary | 8 | - | - | - | Yes | - |
| Cover travel expenses for President to attend OpenGIS conference in Moscow and for developing guidelines for the future events | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | Yes | - |
| Move discussion of covering costs for Steve open drone workshop to FOSS4G 2015 LOC | 8 | - | - | - | Yes | - |