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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Minutes done. Sorry, not as pretty as
Michael does them.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-12-13">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-12-13</a><br>
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On 14/12/12 08:24, Frank Warmerdam wrote:<br>
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<div>Folks,</div>
<div><br>
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<div>One of my aspirations as president has been to describe the
actions </div>
<div>of the board to the broader community after each board
meeting. </div>
<div>I haven't been doing to well so far, but I shall try to do so
now. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>We had a board meeting (by IRC) today. The agenda, minutes,
etc </div>
<div>appear in the wiki (Cameron may not yet have added the
minutes): </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-11-22">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-11-22</a></div>
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<div>Major items from the meeting:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>1) We approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the</div>
<div>Geomatics Laboratory of Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano</div>
<div>(Italy). In the last couple of years we have made great
progress</div>
<div>establishing or linking with open source geospatial labs at a</div>
<div>variety of educational institutions. This effort has been
lead by</div>
<div>Suchith Anand from the University of Nottingham. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_Politecnico_di_Milano">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_Politecnico_di_Milano</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>When we establish these relationships we normally appoint</div>
<div>one or more contacts on behalf of OSGeo to a joint advisory</div>
<div>committee. Anne Ghisla has agreed to look into whether we</div>
<div>have been doing that properly and who it ought to be in this</div>
<div>case. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>2) I stepped down as President. I've found I don't have as
much </div>
<div>initiative for the role of president as I'd like, and it was
my intention </div>
<div>anyways to bring new blood into the role of President in the
not too </div>
<div>distant future. So I decided to expedite things and Jeff
McKenna </div>
<div>has very kindly agreed to take on the role of President with
the </div>
<div>support of the board.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I'm not going away, and will continue on the board and
answering</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:info@osgeo.org">info@osgeo.org</a>
questions with Jeff also assisting now. Jeff has</div>
<div>great enthusiasm for OSGeo and is very active around the
world</div>
<div>promoting the open source geospatial community and supporting</div>
<div>it through efforts including MapServer documentation, MS4W
and</div>
<div>
the Zoo Project. I also count him as a valued friend of many </div>
<div>years.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>3) Last year the board had a very constructive face to face
meeting</div>
<div>in Seattle and we discussed whether to hold a one this year.
We</div>
<div>did not come to a firm conclusion though we are considering
a </div>
<div>meeting alongside FOSS4G-NA this spring. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>4) Daniel Morissette, or Treasurer, has been working very
hard</div>
<div>to regularize our 501(c)3 (charitable) status with the IRS
(US tax</div>
<div>service) and provided some brief updates including the
response</div>
<div>document at:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>5) We also declared the board meeting of 2012-08-20 as our
official </div>
<div>AGM (Annual General Meeting) for purposes of corporate
reporting.</div>
<div>Normally the AGM is where a new board of directors is elected
but</div>
<div>since we do that by email our AGM is somewhat nebulous. So
we</div>
<div>declared the board meeting at which those election results
came into</div>
<div>effect as our official AGM for reporting purposes. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Our next board meeting will be held January 17th.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best regards,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com"
target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>
light and sound - activate the windows | <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://pobox.com/%7Ewarmerdam"
target="_blank">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>
and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software
Developer<br>
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