Board Meeting 2015-04-09

This board meeting is scheduled for the 9th of April 2015 at 15.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email. 
== Agenda ==
=== Current items ===
Items in italic are recurring at each meeting.
Move items from past meetings, or add new items, at will. Note that the discussion is limited to 1 hour.
* roll call
* appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
* Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2015-03-05
* brief treasurer report
* "Geo for All" Student Awards request for seed funding (4k USD) (award wiki)
* An Open Letter is being drafted requesting OGC/OGC Sponsors/ESRI back Open LiDAR standards. This letter should be ready to present within a week or two, ~ 20 April 2015. Request that the OSGeo Board officially endorse and present this letter once complete (as was done for the GeoServicesREST API letter). Contacts: Suchith Anand, Martin Isenburg, Cameron Shorter.
* Proposing a Diversity statement for the Foundation
* FOSS4G 2015 update
* FOSS4G 2016 update
* Request for funding OSGeo President's travel to enable expanding strategic level initiatives between OSGeo and ICA at ICC 2015 and SDI-Open 2015 ( GeoforAll request)
* Request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (University of Amsterdam) - Dutch historical GIS based on the first cadastre of the Netherlands (1832)
* Request for Funding QGIS Codesprint/ Developers meeting in Denmark May 2015 - for Lene Fischer (University of Copenhagen) (request)
* Request for OSGeo sponsorship for GRASS Community Sprint 2015 in Como (Link to application)
* add your items here..
=== Items from past meetings ===
* Beginning plans for a 2015 budget (similar to OSGeo Budget 2014)
** Dealing with SAC/systems issues (Outstanding SAC Issues 2014)
* 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
* [Jeff] draft a letter at OGC XML Schemas and FOSS4G Software Distribution
== Minutes ==
* Attending: Jeff, Anne, Jachym, Maxi, Jorge, Bart, Gerald, Mike
* Presiding: Jeff
* Scribing: Maxi
Also attended: -
=== Assigned Tasks ===
* [UNASSIGNED] ask on Board list for clarifications on the LIDAR format open letter 
* [UNASSIGNED] set a focused meeting just on the CoC and Diversity statement topic
=== Motions (to be confirmed by email) ===
Motion 	+1	0	-1	Abstain	Passed?	Notes
Approve past meeting's minutes 	7 	x	x 	x 	Yes 	
approve OSGeo Student Awards funding 	7 	x	x 	x 	Yes 	
approve funding for the OSGeo president for SDI-Open 2015 	6 	x	x 	1 	Yes 	
approve 4k of sponsorship money to the QGIS codesprint in Denmark	6 	x	x 	x 	Yes 	
approve 1500 euro for GRASS Community Sprint Como 2015 	6 	x	x 	x 	Yes 	
=== Full, raw minutes notes ===
IRC Log at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-04-09.log
* 15:00 Meeting starts
* 17:06 MOTION: approve past meeting's minutes, 7 votes in favour, passed
* 17:08 deferred treasurer report
* 17:13 MOTION: allocate 4k USD on OSGeo Budget for OSGeo Students Award, 7 votes in favour, passed
* 17:28: ACTION: ask on Board list for clarifications on the LIDAR format open letter
* 17:40 'ACTION: set a focused meeting just on the CoC and Diversity statement topic
* 17:43 FOSS4G 2015 update
** currently 25 sponsors
** SmartGeoExpo link could bring many participants
* 17:46 FOSS4G 2016 update
** LOC has decided to work all in open 
** proposed link with that big UN conference will not happen
* 15:48 Request for funding OSGeo President's travel
** recognized strategic presence of OSGeo
** MOTION: approve funding for the OSGeo president for SDI-Open 2015 for a maximum of 3500 USD, 6 votes in favour, 1 abstain, passsed
* 15:56 Request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (University of Amsterdam) - Dutch historical GIS based on the first cadastre of the Netherlands (1832)
** non-profit proposal
** a protocol exists for requesting a support letter but it has not be followed in the past
** ACTION: draft a letter, and then we have an e-mail motion on it
* 16:04 MOTION: approve 4k of sponsorship money to the QGIS codesprint in Denmark, 6 votes in favour, passed
* 16:11 MOTION: approve 1500 euro for GRASS Community Sprint Como 2015, 6 votes in favour, passed
* 16:13 Next meeting time: 2015/05/21 + 14:00UTC Board Meeting 2015-05-21
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