Board Meeting 2009-05-29

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[[Category: Board]]
[[Category:Board Meetings 2009]]

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 29th of May 2009 at 15:00 UTC ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2009&month=05&day=29&hour=15&min=0&sec=0 fixedtime]), by Skype and IRC ([irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo #osgeo]) at the same time.

Communication will be using '''Skype''' voice, initiated by Tyler. Be sure to give him your Skype username.

; Please notice that we should have any necessary dialog on IRC or mail ''before'' the actual meeting so that we can make the phone call as short as possible.

== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting secretary
* Review and approve [[Board Meeting 2009-03-13]] minutes.
* Review and approve [[Board Meeting 2009-04-24]] minutes.
* Approve OSSIM for graduation from incubation with Mark Lucas as VP, OSSIM as recommended by the incubation committee.
* Review and approve the 2008 annual financial report recommended by the Finance committee ( [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/finance/2008_Balance.html Balance Sheet] and [http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo/finance/2008_IncomeExpense.html Income & Expenses])
** 2008 Finance committee summary for Annual Report [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_5/en-us/annual_report/executive/finance.pdf]
* Elections for Charter Members and to Board in 2009 - find a CRO, draft a timetable.
* Sponsorship opportunities, ideas and updates from all
* Charity status in USA, filing taxes
* Update from Tyler
** [[Marketing Material Samples]] - [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/journal/volume_5/en-us/OSGeoJournal_vol5.pdf Annual Report] - [http://matc.mellon.org Mellon grant/award application][http://matc.mellon.org/nominate/open-source-geospatial-foundation-osgeo/live-disk-for-geospatial-tool-education][http://matc.mellon.org/nominate/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/the-osgeo-global-education-and-curriculum-project]
** Upcoming, etc: [http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis/os_home.html Keynote at UK OSGIS Meeting] - Panel at Regional ESRI event - [http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20090521/documents/csb5.pdf Vancouver Open Policy]

== Minutes ==
* Attended: Arnulf, Jo, Frank, Markus, Ari, Tyler

* Tyler volunteers to take minutes

== General Discussion ==
General discussion occurred on IRC.

* Review and approve Board Meeting 2009-03-13 minutes and review and approve Board Meeting 2009-04-24 minutes.
** '''markusN:''' re the first minutes: was there any follow-up concerning "Ask Marketing Committee to discuss how to spread the OSGeo PayPal donation option more, track donors, etc. "? '''TylerM:''' no, I didn't make any follow up on it via marketing committee. Will file a trac ticket for Marketing.
** '''TylerM:''' Similar question re: the 15k up front funding for foss4g2010 - did conference committee get anything back? '''FrankW:''' With regard to 15k upfront, I floated a proposal but there was no followup on the list from me or anyone else. '''zool:''' as the barcelona organisers are the ones it will most impact i would expect to see input form them e.g. lorenzo - a draft budget for where that will be laid out
* Approve OSSIM for graduation from incubation with Mark Lucas as VP, OSSIM as recommended by the incubation committee.
** zool: i am glad to hear inccom is happy given the code management / governance issues ossim had in the past - very glad!
** FrankW: OSSIM has a somewhat unconventional approach, but they do buy into our requirement for openness, and traceability.
* Review and approve the 2008 annual financial report recommended by the Finance committee
* Elections for Charter Members and to Board in 2009 - find a CRO, draft a timetable. [http://www.online-poker-spielen.biz/poker-spiele/ cool pokerspiele]
** Looking for volunteer to lead this, for acting as elections officer for 2009 elections. Task to collect nominations for charter members, board members and to collect/count votes.
** As per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer

== Voting ==
After general discussion, voting was done by voice call.

* '''MOTION:''' Arnulf moved, Jo second, motion to approve March minutes. All were in favour, carried.
* '''MOTION:''' Arnulf moved, Jo second, motion to approve April minutes. All were in favour, carried.
* '''MOTION:''' Frank motioned, Jo seconds: Approve OSSIM for graduation from incubation with Mark Lucas as VP, OSSIM as recommended by the incubation committee. All were in favour, carried
* '''MOTION:''' Frank motioned, Arnulf seconds: Review and approve the 2008 annual financial report recommended by the Finance committee
** +1 from 4 voters, +0 from Jeroen (didn't have time to review) - carries.
** Follow up note from Jeroen says he's reviewed and would vote +1 in retrospect.
* Arnulf motions to close formal call part of meeting. Jo seconds, all in favour. Meeting adjorned after approximately 30 minutes.

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