Board Meeting 2014-02-06

This board meeting is scheduled for the 6th of February 2014 at 20.00UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.
== Agenda ==
* roll call
* appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
* Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-12-16
* Discuss OSGeo Budget 2014
** possible item for the San Francisco Foundation Center to review our nonprofit status
* FOSS4G 2015 RFP plan and missing chair for conference committee
* Discuss OSGeo membership in GLTN. See also mail to board list. Arnulf will join the IRC chat to answer questions.
* Growing the OSGeo-Live PPA into a trusted source for packages -dbb
** http://ct.light42.com/www_shared/PPA-situation-present.txt
* GSoC 2014 (aghisla)
* add your items here
== Minutes ==
* Attending: Jeff, Frank, Cameron, Bart, Gérald, Anne, Jorge
* Presiding: Jeff
* Scribing: Jorge
=== Assigned Tasks ===
* Cameron: raise a motion to approve Frank as member of the Conference Committe
=== Motions (to be confirmed by email) ===
* MOTION: Approve Board Meeting 2013-12-16 minutes:
** Frank/1: +1 7
* MOTION: The Board supports the GLTN membership proposal, as described by Arnulf on Board list
** Cameron/1: +1 7
* MOTION: The Board appoints Anne Ghisla and Hamish Bowman as OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 administrators.
** Frank/1: +1 7
=== Full, raw minutes notes ===
 IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2014-02-06.log
* 20:00 Meeting starts
* 20:05 Minutes approved
* 20:08 Budget 2014
** Brian Hamlin: about S.Francisco Foundation Center to review our non-profit status, he have no contacted an attorney yet
** Frank: the item for the backup server can be dropped
** About the outreach item:
*** Cameron: the marketing committee has not been working on the allocation of budget, so that item is misused
*** Anne: the procedure to request outreach funds need work
** Discussion about the budget for travelling expenses
*** To some community members it was a misuse of the budget to have the President on a dorm at FOSS4G 2014
*** Anne disagrees on that criticism
*** Jeff and Frank agree on raising the budget
*** Cameron: code sprints can gain more value than attending (expensive) events
*** Cameron: travel budget need a more detailed budget, some prevision of events to attend
*** Jeff: maybe a separated meeting? this needs to be addressed soon
** Bart ask about how the 2013 budget was used
** Jeff: our first need for budgeting is an accountant/bookkeeper
** Bart: there should be budget for the (annual FOSS4G) benchmark
** Jeff: move this on the list
* 20:36 FOSS4G 2015 RFP
** Cameron: we should look for a paid role on those positions we don't have volunteers
** Bart: the plan for the RFP is to be published on a week
** Frank: the work load is small for the conference chair, he volunteers for the position
** Bart offers to help Frank on the role
** Bart: Frank has to be back on the committee (**task**)
* 20:45 OSGeo joining GLTN
** Discussion around the topic if GLTN is wanting to have training from OSGeo directly and the conflict with the non-profit status, Service Providers, etc
** Jeff points about not covering the time spent
** Arnulf states that joining GLTN will allow people with the time but not the money to cover travel costs to represent OSGeo
** General support on the idea of joining GLTN, Cameron raises the motion
* 20:57 OSGeo Live PPA
** Brian presents the idea
** Frank doesn't see a clear action item for the board
** Jeff has to move to next item
* 21:00 GSoC 2014
** Anne and Hamish will lead again OSGeo participation
** Frank motions to appoint them formally
* Next meeting agreed to be on March 6
* Meeting closes
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