<div dir="ltr">Thanks for recording Sanghee:<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>1. MOT1: Approve prior meeting minutes from March 2016<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Minutes are <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10">here</a> - two motions are still marked pending.</div><div><br></div><div>-1</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
2. Transfer 10K USD Travel Grant for FOSS4G-2016 (acceptance of abstract not a precondition)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> +1</div><div><br></div><div>I note from IRC "delegate the responsibility to allocate travel grants to the LOC" - can I confirm that this is still the motion? The above "acceptance of abstract not a precondition" reads like a suggestion to the LOC.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
3. MOT3: Financial support for OSGeo to get the OSGeo-Live DVD to the conference, Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre April (as suggested by vasile on ML)</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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4. MOT4: OSGeo to fund 2,000USD for OSGeo USB sticks at Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference (UMGEOCON 2016)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Considering MOT3 and MOT4 together I am +1.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not comfortable with the board approving resources to one and not the other - although I would prefer if marketing committee could make the decision based on their outreach objectives for the year. Making judgment calls on a case by case basis based on what may be effective is not really effective.</div><div><br></div><div>For me a key element of the osgeo-live thumbdrives is the branding opportunity; as delegates reformat the drive when out of date and continue to use them for years.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Although the idea of recovering media costs from participants is attractive (from a not our financial obligation perspective) it misses the point that conference provides are offering us a perk that is worth money. A corporation in the same situation would often be changed a fee to provide an item such as this to conference attendees.</div><div><br></div><div>I feel really bad that we (as an organization) have taken this long to respond, and to respond with a discussion rather than a clear +1 seems in poor form.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
5. MOT5: Next meeting 12 May (Thursday)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 I am available that date. Is it worth scheduling a hangout - or even a coffee date for those going to foss4gna?</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div>