[OSGeo-Board] Board meeting April 7

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:01:15PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> I'm good with deferring the next official meeting till next week, and
> continuing discussions on the sprint by email.

I would also be +1 with this, and would like to collect more thoughts
on middle ground between "sprint" on short-term goals (Incubation) and
longer-term ones (pilot projects that would benefit from
infrastructure already in place) and where the middle ground can be.
 
> I would like to see some information on committee status, and I will
> try and report on behalf of the incubator today or tomorrow, or perhaps
> after Monday's meeting.

Nod, I'm writing up the Geodata Committee meeting / activity summary
today, and I'll try to make it a more discursive one than the previous, 
and forward it here. I'm sure that everyone within OSGeo would be
interested in reading committee reports, and commenting on them. 
Sending meeting reports to the discuss list doesn't seem appropriate
to me, perhaps I'm wrong about that. Ideally this should be part of the
flow of something that we are doing anyway, not an extra 'reporting'
workload. 

I had a quick look at the Committee pages on the wiki, thinking (after
a brief IRC discussion with Frank about this earlier) to drop a quick
email to the Committee chairs and remind them about this. Then I
realised that apart from the Education committee, which hasn't kicked
off its activities yet (that I am aware of) all the other Committee
chairs are Board members or are lurking on the Board list anyway. 

Perhaps, as Tyler suggested, a nag-bot would do this job as well as a
human would :)


jo