[OSGeo-Board] Minutes of Second Meeting Posted

[Rich Steele]

One further follow up from the board meeting--

In reviewing the proposed bylaws, both Frank and Markus had some issues
with the provisions of Article VI governing the establishment of Project
Steering Committees.  Principally the comments revolved around:

- the requirement that the board appoint all members of PSCs
- limiting PSC memberships to one year terms

I made some slight modifications to Article VI to permit the chairperson
of the PSC to staff up the committee, and to delete the reference to the
one year term.  See changes here:

http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php?title=Draft_OSGEO_Bylaws&diff=1734
&oldid=1576

I think at least the first of these changes is necessary because thus
far (and conceivably going forward), the board has only appointed the
chair of committees but has not appointed any other members.  I had
hoped to implement these changes after the discussion at today's
meeting, but a motion was made to adopt the bylaws before I had a chance
to do so.

Do any of you have an issue with these two small modifications?  If not,
I would propose we make them in the final "approved" version of the
bylaws.

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
> Warmerdam (External)
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:28 PM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Minutes of Second Meeting Posted
> 
> Rich Steele wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've posted meeting minutes and action items to the wiki.  Please
let me
> > know if I've missed or misstated anything.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Second_Board_Meeting
> >
> > Also, now that we have bylaws and everything is "official", future
board
> > minutes will have a more corporate look to them to ensure that we
comply
> > with Delaware corporate law.
> 
> Rich,
> 
> The minutes look good to me.
> 
> Daniel - can we post the minutes and action items on the board web
> site after they have been adopted?  (http://board.osgeo.org).  I see
the
> project exists, but you are the only member.  If I had commit
privileges
> I would be willing to post the minutes from the wiki to the official
site,
> though this might be better addressed by the Secretary.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
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