Board Meeting 2006 02 27

The second board meeting is planned for February 27th, 2006 at 8:00am PST, by phone and IRC at the same time.

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Agenda

• Appoint meeting secretary.
• Review and approve First Board Meeting minutes.
• Status report on website and activities from DanielB.
• Assign responsibility to approve/reject/forward mail arriving at 'info AT osgeo.org' to a second person (Tyler proposed as candidate).
• Status report from the Treasurer (Gary).
• Motion to form an Project Incubation Committee.
• Motion to form a Promotion and Visibility Committee.
• Motion on Proposed Board Election Procedure to elect four additional directors (Chris).
• Review Contributor Agreement (Rich).
• Proposed Press Release and Translations (Markus)
• Motion to approve OSGeo Statement of Support for http://PublicGeodata.org web site (Markus w/Jo) (-> postponed to Third_Board_Meeting)
• Discussion on being a 501c3 corporation.
• Discuss, and possibly approve the OSGeo FAQ.

Minutes

See official minutes posted here

Action Items

1. RichS and GaryL to open OSGeo bank account
2. Arnulf and Daniel to work on creating wiki.osgeo.org
3. Gary to provide copy of collabnet contract arrangement for “business resumption planning”.
4. BOD to review/discuss online OSGeo FAQ by Wednesday, March 1st and post along with translations.
5. RichS to engage tax counsel to get application for 501c3 underway.
6. FrankW to have process and criteria for Project Incubation Committee by next Board meeting.
7. RichS to prepare FAQ for contributor agreements
8. Significant contributors to foundation projects must (through Incubation Committee members), review and approve Contributor Agreements within the next 2 weeks. Post and discuss online.
9. All Board members review and provide comment on OSGeo FAQ by Weds, March 1
10. LauraR to provide tallied results of Member election by noon PST Tuesday, 2/28. Current members to vote on any ties and approve by Wednesday, March 1st.
11. MarkusN to work with Sean Sternfeldt on press release to go out Wednesday, March 1st.