Board Meeting 2008 03 14
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This board meeting has been scheduled for the 14th of March 2008 at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.
Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.
Agenda
- Appoint meeting secretary,
- Review and approve Thirty Third Board Meeting minutes.
- Appoint Wolf Bergenheim as Google Summer of Code Administrative contact (with support from Frank Warmerdam)
- Approve graduation of the Quantum GIS project from incubation with Gary Sherman as project liason (aka VP, QGIS) as recommended by the Incubation committee.
- Discuss timing, and responsibility for 2008 charter member and board elections.
- FOSS4G 2008 contracting and budget status review.
- Update from Tyler
Minutes
- Meeting started at 15h07 UTC
- Real-time IRC logs available here
- Present: Bob, Chris, Paul, Frank, Dave, (Voting Quorum reached) Tyler
- Appoint meeting secretary, Tyler taking minutes, Frank chairing meeting
- Review and approve Thirty Third Board Meeting minutes.
- Bob moved, Frank seconded, all were in favour, minutes approved.
- Motion: Appoint Wolf Bergenheim as Google Summer of Code Administrative contact (with support from Frank Warmerdam)
- Frank made the motion to appoint him, Paul seconded, all were in favour.
- Wolf is appointed Google SoC Admin contact
- Thank you to Wolf for volunteering for this task
- Motion: Approve graduation of the Quantum GIS project from incubation with Gary Sherman as project liason (aka VP, QGIS) as recommended by the Incubation committee.
- Frank made the motion, Chris seconded all were in favour.
- QGIS is now a graduated OSGeo project
- Discuss timing, and responsibility for 2008 charter member and board elections.
- Will hold off until after Annual Report is complete, end of March, so Tyler can lead the process, with input from the Board
- TODO: Tyler to document process to be used
- FOSS4G 2008 contracting and budget status review.
- Paul gave update. Balanced budget received from LOC last week and it is looking good.
- Finance Committee to vet and recommend budget approval back to Board.
- TODO: Paul to send recommendation to committee for discussion
- Final approval and letter of agreement planned for next board meeting.
- Update from Tyler
- Reviewing some items from his email update
- Tyler is gathering UK contacts (with Jo Cook) for a potential OSGeo UK Meetup May 2008 to boost the local chapter, while in the area for a presentation at OSGeo Sponsor 1Spatial's annual conference.
- Frank moves to close the meeting, seconded by Dave, all in favour.. meeting adjorned.