Board Meeting 2012-12-13

This board meeting is scheduled for the 13th of December 2012 at 20.00 UTC on IRC and follow up voting on Skype or by email. 
== Agenda ==
* roll call
* appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
* Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-11-15
* Review MoU draft with Geomatics Laboratory of Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano
** wiki: MOU Politecnico di Milano
** initially discussed privately by the Board around 2011-09-19
* Brief update on Eclipse LocationTech Working Group (Peter has just completed and submitted paperwork to them - once signed by them we should make an announcement)
* Frank would like to step down as President. Consider replacements.
* Face to face meeting? A few months back we talked about having a meeting when the new board was in place. Do we think we should do this, if so when, where, etc?
* Finances
** Final response to IRS submitted and linked in 501c3 Application: Questions from IRS, September 2012
** Date of 2012 AGM (required for annual report to Registrar of Companies Office (BC, Canada)
** Quickbooks updates and financials for 2011 and 2012
* please add items
* Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
* Schedule next meeting
== Minutes ==
* Logs: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2012-12-13.log
* Meeting Report: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-December/011210.html
* Chair: FrankW
* Secretary: Cameron Shorter
* Attending: jachym, FrankW, pmbatty, jmkenna, aghisla, dmorissette, Ludovico, dbb <-- please avoid such acronyms
* Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2012-11-15
** MOTION: dmorissette moves to accept minutes. aghisla seconds. Carried.
* Review MoU draft with Geomatics Laboratory of Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano
** MOTION: dmorissette moves to adopt MOU. 2nd Jeff. Carried.
** aghisla volunteers to act as OSGeo liaison officer.
** ACTION aghisla to follow up assigning of liaison officers.
* Eclipse LocationTech Working Group update
** Update provided by Peter. Waiting for next meeting in Jan 2013.
* Frank replaced by Jeff as President.
** MOTION: Frank moves to have himself replaced by Jeff as president. 2nd aghisla. Motion carried.
* Face to face meeting?
** Discussed, moved to email list.
* Finances
** Daniel reported on submitting financials to IRS.
* AGM meeting
** MOTION: Frank moves that board meeting of 20 August 2012 be set as the AGM meeting. 2nd Daniel. Motion carried.
* Meeting summary to the list
** ACTION Frank to send out a report
* dbb discussed some successes of OSGeo-Live.
* Next meeting
** 20:00 UTC, 17 Jan 2013, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2013&month=1&day=17&hour=20&min=0&sec=0
* MOTION: meeting closed
==== Assigned Tasks ====
* ACTION aghisla to follow up assigning of liaison officers.
* ACTION Frank to send out a report
==== Motions ====
* MOTION: dmorissette moves to accept minutes. aghisla seconds. Carried.
* MOTION: dmorissette moves to adopt MOU. 2nd Jeff. Carried.
* MOTION: Frank moves to have himself replaced by Jeff as president. 2nd aghisla. Motion carried.
* MOTION: Frank moves that board meeting of 20 August 2012 be set as the AGM meeting. 2nd Daniel. Motion carried.
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