Board Meeting 2015-08-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of August 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 2015-07-17
* brief treasurer report
* FOSS4G 2015 update
* FOSS4G 2016 update
* Election 2015 (Final survey results)
* request to form a new Open_Geoscience_Committee (request)
* request to form a new CodeOfConduct Committee (request)
* ICA MoU renewal at FOSS4G-Como
* refund for FOSDEM 2014 marketing materials (request)
* Incubation committee update: GeoNode has been accepted into incubation (with David Bitnear as mentor). We are likely to need a bit of help transferring code from OpenPlans (now defunct) to OSGeo.
*add your items here
=== Items from past meetings ===
* Request for contacting Esri about the "GIS for the UN and International Community" event (request) (event)
* Updating/Recording accurate foundation officers
** Website committee chair not active (according to the chair)
** Geodata committee not actively used (according to the chair)
** Marketing committee without a chair
* Updating/Recording accurate local chapters
* Agree on 5-level project evaluation as proposed by Cameron 
* OSGeo is now a registered 'organization' with OGC, and goal is to have all OSGeo "products"/projects listed there. (initial discussion on Projects list)
* [UNASSIGNED] update Officers page (and any others) to reflect pycsw as a graduted OSGeo project
== Minutes ==
* Attending: jmckenna, jachym, aghisla, jsanz, vcraciunescu, bartvde, djay, maxi_
* Presiding: jmckenna
* Scribing: jachym
=== Motions (confirmed by email) ===
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-August/013030.html
Motion 	+1	0	-1	Abstain	Passed?	Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes 	6 	2	0 	1 	YES 	
brief treasurer report 	 	 	 	 	 	deferred
Proceed with elections with proposed timeline on http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015 , add in the survey results there, and to proceed this year with the 2014 process. 	9 	0	0 	0 	YES 	YES/(YES+NO+ABSTAIN)*100 (2014 formula)
approve the creation of the new Open Geoscience Committee, as per http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee , with the condition of naming a chair 	9 	0	0 	0 	YES 	
motion to approve the creation of the new Code Of Conduct Committee, as per http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CodeOfConduct_Committee , pending clarification of the purpose of the smaller voting committee and its interaction with the OSGeo Board	9 	0	0 	0 	YES 	"... will maintain a smaller voting committee ... to handle CoC incidents and violations" ?
approve the renewal of the ICA-OSGeo MoU as per http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA 	9 	0	0 	0 	YES 	
approve refund for FOSDEM 2014 marketing materials (280 €) 	8 	0	0 	1 	YES 	
accept GeoNode into OSGeo Incubation, as recommended by the Incubation Committee 	9 	0	0 	0 	YES 	
=== Full, raw minutes notes ===
IRC log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-08-13.log
* FOSS4G 2015 update - 325 registrants, the goal is 400 to break even, things are looking good, as there is always a last minute rush, keep online registration open longer
* FOSS4G 2016 update - nothing to update here, FOSSGIS can't accept any liablity, there is no agreement yet regarding 2016
* Election 2015 - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015, results are available here http://geo-spatial.org/osgeo/partial_survey_results.html, number of comments sent privately about threshold
* Open_Geoscience_Committee - request: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Open-Geoscience-Committee-proposal-td5217427.html , Peter and Madi are proposed chairs
* CodeOfConduct_Committee - having volunteers help make sure OSGeo is diverse is excellent, and i was very happy with Camille/Kristin's recent thoughts, "smaller voting committee" is to privately handle answering reports, needs to be clarified
* ICA MoU renewal at FOSS4G-Como - appears as a handshake, but actually is very great (think of the positive effect on GeoForAll)
* Incubation committee update: GeoNode has been accepted into incubation - We are likely to need a bit of help transferring code from OpenPlans (now defunct) to OSGeo. The above problem is noted - and I am not quite sure what can be done about it. If anyone has a contact at OpenPlans we could get a letter. OpenPlans is defunct, so there is nobody to "give" the code to OSGeo.
* next meeting - 2015-09-17 (FOSS4G) unofficial, Board_Meeting_2015-10-15
* draft a bid for OSGeo website renewal it is too hugly now, and I think we have the money to do it, range of 10k to 50k or range 5k to 15k
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