"Official" Board Minutes

[Rich Steele]

OSGeo Board members,

I've prepared the "official" minutes of the OSGeo board since conception
and uploaded them into the Board Project document repository.

https://board.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=7

You will notice that these minutes do not exactly track the first two
meetings that the board has held to date.  The reason for this is that
until we agreed on a set of Bylaws for the foundation, Gary Lang
technically was the sole director of the corporation and the only one
authorized to take action in the name of the corporation.  Once the
bylaws were adopted, however, we were able to legally expand the size of
the board and officially appoint each of you as directors.  So now there
is essentially a "chain of authority" leading from the lawyer who
originally filed the incorporation papers back in November and appointed
Gary as sole director, all the way to the current board of five, and
this will lead into the full board of nine.

Thus, there are minutes of an "organizational meeting" (at which only
Gary and I were present) and at which Gary approved a bunch of official
organizational legal matters such as:

- approving the bylaws in the form that you all agreed to;
- appointing each of you as directors;
- appointing the officers of the foundation;
- admitting the initial 21 voting members of the foundation

Then there is another set of board minutes where everyone attended, and
at which meeting the bylaws were ratified and the current committees
were created.  Notice there is a blank for the identity of the chair of
WebCom.  You need to select someone.  Remember that it need not be a
member of the board, but it could be someone (like HoBu or another
person on WebCom) that the board appoints as a VP of the foundation. 

After the 2/27 minutes are approved at the next meeting, I would like to
post all of these documents on the public "About the Foundation" page in
the board archive.  Please review in advance of the next meeting and
email me with any questions.

Thanks,

-Rich