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The 4th board meeting is planned for Friday, March 17th 2006 at 8:00 a.m. PST (wold times), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.

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Agenda

Appoint meeting secretary.
Approve (with review) Third Board Meeting minutes
Notice on Open Letter regarding the INSPIRE Directive (Markus)
Notice/Motion to establish Public Geodata Committee/Project/WorkingGroup based on Public Geospatial Data Project (Markus/Jo)
Notice on Education and Curriculum Project progress (Markus)
Discussion of priorities (Gary)

Minutes

See official minutes of meeting posted here

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 == Minutes ==
-MINUTES OF A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE OPEN
+See official minutes of meeting posted [https://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/meetings/board/board_meetings.html here]
-SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION
-A Delaware non-stock corporation
-On March 17, 2006, at 8:00 am Pacific time, pursuant to notice duly given, the Board of Directors
-(the "Board") of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (the "Foundation" or "OSGeo") held a
-meeting by teleconference.
-Present at the meeting were the following members of the Board: Chris Holmes, Gary Lang,
-Markus Neteler and Frank Warmerdam and Arnulf Christl.  Also present at the request of the
-Board was Daniel Brookshier, VP Website Project, and Laura Rivera.  All participants indicated
-that they could hear one another. Additionally, Internet Relay Chat was used for backup purposes
-(#osgeo on irc.freenode.net).  Ms. Rivera was appointed secretary of the meeting.
-APPROVAL OF MINUTES
-The Board first approved by general consent the minutes of the meeting held on March 10, 2006.
-NOTICE ON OPEN LETTER REGARDING THE INSPIRE DIRECTIVE
-The Board next reviewed and discussed the Open Letter Regarding the INSPIRE Directive.  The
-Board ratified the actions of Markus Neteler in signing the open letter on behalf of the
-Foundation.  The open letter was sent to the ENVI Committee on March 15, 2006.
-PUBLIC GEODATA COMMITTEE
-The Board next discussed forming a Project Steering Committee (PSC) for a Public Geospatial
-Data project, to be chaired by Jo Walsh.  Mr. Neteler received Ms. Walsh's consent to so act
-through IRC while the meeting progressed.  After discussion, and upon motion duly made and
-seconded, the following resolutions were passed:
-WHEREAS, the Bylaws of the Foundation permit the Board to establish Project Steering
-Committees (PSCs); and the Board deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and
-consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a PSC.
-NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Steering Committee, to be known as the
-"Public Geospatial Data Project Steering Committee" (Geodata PSC), be and hereby is
-established pursuant to Article VI of Bylaws of the Foundation;
-RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Geodata PSC be and hereby is responsible for activities of the
-Foundation relating to: promotion of the use of open geospatial formats; promotion of public
-access to state-collected geodata; maintaining a public repository of open geodata; and presenting
-and explaining licenses for public geodata;
-RESOLVED FURTHER, that the office of "Vice President, Public Geospatial Data Project" be
-and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of
-Directors as the chair of the Geodata PSC, and to have primary responsibility for management of
-the project within the scope of responsibility of the Geodata PSC;
-RESOLVED FURTHER, that Jo Walsh be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice
-President, Public Geospatial Data Project, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction
-of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
-removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed;
-RESOLVED FURTHER, that the chair of the Geodata PSC be and hereby is given the authority
-to select the members of such PSC, who need not be voting members of the Foundation.
-NOTICE ON EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM PROJECT PROGRESS
-The Board next discussed the proposal to form an Education and Curriculum Committee. It was
-decided that this would move to be discussed on the Foundation's discuss mail list.  It was
-resolved that a motion be prepared for the next Board meeting along with a proposed committee
-chair.
-DISCUSSION OF PRIORITIES
-Gary Lang collected lists of priorities from all members of the Board and will roll them up into a
-spreadsheet with the Top 3 - 5 which he will distribute via email.  The Board determined that
-they would like to include "Milestones".   This will be followed up with an action item for
-discussion at the next Board meeting.
-NEWS ITEMS
-The Board next discussed adding a Newsletter (weekly/monthly) to the OSGeo website.  This
-would provide a snapshot of what OSGeo is currently working on.  Frank Warmerdam
-volunteered to contribute to this newsletter which will be distributed to the discuss list and posted
-to the website.  Mr. Brookshier will setup the RSS feed for news, and add dates on all news items
-along with Announcement Items on front page of website with RSS feed by next week.
-"SPRINT" PROJECTS
-The Board next discussed the potential of members meeting 2-3 days to work as a team on
-different committee projects.  Mr. Holmes suggested an "Incubation Sprint" possibly in June as
-an add-on to a conference he and Jo Walsh will be attending in New York.
-EVENTS
-The Board next discussed having the community manager collect a list of upcoming events that
-OSGeo members are or would be interested in attending.  It was resolved to post a list of key
-events to the board discuss list.  Motion to put on agenda for next week - Review event list.
-ADJOURNMENT
-There being no further business, upon motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was
-adjourned.
-/s/ Laura Rivera
-Secretary of the Meeting

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