Board Meeting 2007 11 02

This board meeting has been scheduled for the 2nd of November at 15:00 UTC (fixedtime), by phone and IRC (#osgeo) at the same time.
Communication will use the new Conference Call facilities.
== Agenda ==
* Appoint meeting secretary
* Review and approve Twenty Eighth Board Meeting, and Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
* Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
* Approve GEOS to enter incubation
* Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
* Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
* Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
* Introduce OSGeo 2008 Budget and Role of Finance Committee - Discussion of any immediate Budget items that must be dealt with in short term before formal approval of Budget
* Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
* Discuss Cameron's email to the board titled Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support
* Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be expected from RFP responders.
* Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts
* Info from Dave M. re. kick-starting OSGeo installer initiative
* Deferred: Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).
== Minutes ==
* Role call: Paul, Frank, Arnulf, Markus, Tyler, Chris
* Appoint meeting secretary: Tyler
* Review and approved Twenty Eighth Board Meeting
** Frank moved, Markus seconds, all in favour, carried
* Review and approved Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 minutes.
** Deferred while confirming existance of minutes elsewhere
* Approve OpenLayers Incubation Graduation
** Incubation committee recommends graduation
** Chris moves, Frank seconds, all in favour, carried
** OpenLayers officially graduated
* Approve GEOS to enter incubation
** Incubation committee recommending accepting GEOS into incubation
** Frank moves, Chris seconds, all in favour, carried
** Needs to add mentor to Trac ticket
** GEOS officially in incubation
* Approve renaming of Promotion and Visibility Committee to Marketing Committee
** Paul moves, Chris seconds, alli n favour, carried
** VisCom is now called Marketing
* Approve Charlie Schweik as new Education Committee chair, and Ned Horning as co-chair.
** Frank moves, Chris seconds, all in favour, carried
** Charlie and Ned are chairs of Education Committee]]
* Approve David Bitner as new Geodata Committee chair
** Arnulf moves, Frank seconds, all in favour, carried
** David is now chair of Geodata committee
* Introduce OSGeo 2008 Budget and Role of Finance Committee - Discussion of any immediate Budget items that must be dealt with in short term before formal approval of Budget
** Dave bringing budget forward in next meeting
* Discussion between board and Jody on a path forward for GeoTools incubation and copyright assignment. Prereading: GeoTools Legal Review: see "the current pitch" near bottom, and Graduate from OSGeo.
** Jody was unable to attend, deferred his part of the discussion
** General discussion about why this is still a question, and what other projects are doing
** Adrian Custer joined the discussion to present the current case
** Question of whether Board needs to have some more discussion about OSGeo taking on fiduciary responsibility for projects
** Chris to help get further review done, between Adrian, Jody, Heather and cc:'ing Arnulf
* Discuss Cameron's email to the board titled Board Proposal: Statement of OSGeo Legal Support
* Provide direction to the conference committee on FOSS4G 2009 profit targets to be expected from RFP responders.
** Lots of discussion
* Update on Pro-Active Sponsorship efforts
** Nothing to report
* Info from Dave M. re. kick-starting OSGeo installer initiative
** Jeff McKenna will be starting discussions about bringing together the various installer platforms, i.e. MS4W and opening it up, but to include more OSGeo projects
* Deferred: Review and approve proposal for highlighting sponsors and contributors (FrankW to prepare).
* Arnulf had some discussion with IOSN. He will bring up item on list or in next meeting to discuss how/why/when OSGeo could associate with other organisations.
* Closing meeting 16:18UTC
** Chris moves, Arnulf second, all in favour
Category: Board