Board Meeting 2010-12-16

Category:Board
Category:Board Meetings 2010
This board meeting is scheduled for the 16th of December 2010 at 17:00 UTC, on IRC (#osgeo and follow-up Skype call to vote on motions).
== Agenda ==
* Review past minutes: Board Meeting 2010-11-18 
** Main action items:
*** 1. ACTION ITEM: Frank to post (geomajas) announcement to news channels. Copy Pieter's
*** 2. ACTION ITEM: Tyler add CGS MOU to wiki - done, see bottom of this 
*** 3. ACTION ITEM: Tyler to ask Ari and give names to Suchith for OSGL board - Ari agreed, Suchith accepted - done list of OSGL committee members
*** 4. ACTION ITEM: Tyler to follow up with Suchith to coordinate another stakeholders meeting following OSGIS - done - planning started
*** 5. ACTION ITEM: Tyler to draft up rough agenda for an OSGeo-OGC day at OSGIS, circulate with others on board, circulate to OGC reps, follow up with Suchith. - done - see planning page and official program now
*** 6. ACTION ITEM: Tyler to edit changes to letter of support process to reflect board discussion.
* SAC report on backup strategy and security concept (security updates etc.)
* FOSS4G2011 update
* Approve Romanian Local Chapter request letter
* Possibility for OSGeo to hold money for one of its local chapters (See Daniel's email to board list)
== Minutes ==
* Detailed conversation log: http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2010-12-16.log
* Attending: Arnulf, Jeff, Tim, Frank, Daniel and Tyler
=== Action Summary ===
# MOTION: Arnulf moved to adopt past meeting minutes, Jeff seconded, all were in favour
# TODO: Arnulf to discuss the issue of local chapter objectives on the local chapters list and follow up with Vasile (re: Romanian LC application) http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters 
# TODO: Tyler and Tim to look at Paypal button for OpenLayers donations toward project sponsorship
# TODO: Daniel to tweak his (OSGeo holding funds for chapters) ideas into a wiki page, and follow up with the other LCs to see how many might be interested in using this facility.
* Next meeting: January 20th, 2011
=== Detailed Minutes ===
# Reviewed past minutes: Board Meeting 2010-11-18
## Some discussion of copyright and who/how it is assigned in various projects. Arnulf hopes next incubation committee meeting could discuss some of these issues.
## Lots of action items done this past month, as noted in agenda. Arnulf suggested to review some older items in the future to see what's left undone.
## MOTION: Arnulf moved to adopt past meeting minutes, Jeff seconded, all were in favour
# SAC report on backup strategy and security concept ( security updates etc. ) (Arnulf)
## Arnulf had questions about OSGeo SAC backup strategy. General discussion about approaches. A couple wiki pages pointed to SAC:Backups and SAC Service Status
## Some discussion of possibly paying someone to help with aspects of SAC that aren't easily done by volunteers.
## SAC chair wants to resign, Webcom chair too but no one else stepped up yet to take over.
# FOSS4G2011 update (Jeff, Tyler)
## TylerM: 	Two things... logo chosen, sponsorship prospectus almost ready... waiting on Peter.
## jmckenna: 	i aded the foss4g topic, just for a quick update. things are a little slow moving ( chair, peter, was/is in sydney australia )..but i expect it to get moving fast shortly
## Some nervousness about progress, but logo, prospectus and website are on track to get released this week.
## Winning logo: http://www.crowdspring.com/project/2290223_foss4g-denver-2011/voting/?key=b4953432380d8cab1dd439184d0f6fd0#
# Approve Romanian Local Chapter request letter
## More general local chapter questions/discussion came up. Re: Romanian chapter there were questions about the role that geo-spatial.org site plays into their goals - e.g. are they going to be an open source centric chapter, or also promote non-foss (as per that site)? 
## FrankW: 	I am somewhat unclear if the chapter is specifically an OSGeo chapter, or if it is really a geospatial interest group including open source and proprietary.
## danmo: 	do we have a policy that a chapter should be exclusively about OSGeo? Not all current chapters may meet that requirement
## Lots of discussion about roles and missions of local chapters and the broader benefits of OSGeo gaining exposure through various channels and vice versa.
## Probably would not have been this discussion if they only pointed to the wiki and not the external site.
## TODO: Arnulf to discuss the issue of local chapter objectives on the local chapters list and follow up with Vasile. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters 
# Possibility for OSGeo to hold money for one of its local chapters ( See Daniel's email to board list http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2010-December/003714.html)
## General agreement that it would be good if OSGeo could help chapters this way, with clear delineations as in the email.
## Question of how it lines up with 501c3 rules for dispersements
## Other concerns is logistical re: keeping banking manageable.
## TODO: Tyler and Tim to look at Paypal button for OpenLayers donations toward project sponsorship
## TODO: Daniel to tweak his ideas into a wiki page, and follow up with the other LCs to see how many might be interested in using this facility.
* Next meeting: January 20th, 2011