<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">+1<div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 21, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Daniel Morissette <<a href="mailto:dmorissette@mapgears.com">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I have collected all the information relating to this motion in a single wiki page at:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_NA_2013_OSGeo_Agreements">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_NA_2013_OSGeo_Agreements</a><br><br>Now here goes the motion again, hopefully we got everything covered this time:<br><br><br>*** Motion ***<br><br>The board hereby commits to support the FOSS4G-NA 2013 event according to the terms defined in the agreement between OSGeo and the Twin Cities Local chapter (online at [1] and also quoted below), with a board representative to be appointed at the September board meeting at the latest, and in the meantime authorizes Daniel Morissette as Treasurer to sign the draft services agreement with SharedGeo [2] and authorizes the operation of the FOSS4G NA 2013 conference under the budget [3].<br><br>[1] OSGeo/Twin Cities Local Chapter Agreement:<br>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_NA_2013_OSGeo_Agreements#Agreement_between_OSGeo_and_Twin_Cities_Local_Chapter<br><br>[2] OSGeo/SharedGeo Agreement:<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/attachments/20120820/110f4c7b/attachment-0001.doc<br><br>[3] Budget:<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/attachments/20120820/110f4c7b/attachment-0001.pdf<br><br><br><br>And I start with my +1 -- Daniel<br><br><br><br><br>------- Agreement between OSGeo and Twin Cities Local<br>Chapter ---------<br><br>With reference to Board Resolution accepting the Services Agreement between<br>OSGeo and SharedGeo, the OSGeo Board establishes a relationship with the<br>OSGeo Twin Cities Local Chapter to create the Local Organizing Committee<br>for the planning and running of the Free and Open Source Software for<br>Geospatial North America Conference (FOSS4G NA) 2013 Conference to be held<br>in Minneapolis, MN May 22-24 2013.<br><br>As part of this relationship, the Twin Cities Local Chapter agrees to:<br><br> 1. Establish a Local Organizing Committee (LOC). This committee shall<br> fulfill all roles within the Services Agreement assigned to "The<br> Committee". Specifically this encompasses all activities in the Services<br> Agreement Section II.A other than "filing of any required post event<br> Federal and State income tax returns".<br> 2. Establish a Conference Chair.<br> 3. Establish a Program Committee that responds to the Chair and the LOC<br> and tries to represent the broader North American OSGeo interests.<br> 4. Establish an Executive Committee made up of the Conference Chair, the<br> Conference Venue Chair, a representative from SharedGeo, and a<br> representative from the OSGeo Board of Directors. No expenditures outside<br> of the budget or changes to the budget are to be made without full<br> consensus by this Executive Committee<br> 5. Communicate all major developments with regards to the conference<br> with the OSGeo Conference Committee and OSGeo Board of Directors.<br><br>The OSGeo Board agrees to:<br><br> 1. Provide an OSGeo representative to sit on the Local Organizing<br> Committee<br> 2. Provide oversight over the budget through filling a seat on the<br> Conference Executive Committee<br> 3. Earmark a minimum of 50% of net conference profits for future FOSS4G<br> North America events (excluding the main FOSS4G international event).<br> 4. File any required post event Federal and State income tax returns.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br>Board@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>