[Board] Report of the interim mini f2f Board Meeting with CEO & next regular meeting

[Robert Bray]

I am available and plan to attend. Sorry I was out of the office last week without e-mail and hence a little slow to respond.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:26 PM
To: board at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Board] Report of the interim mini f2f Board Meeting with CEO & next regular meeting

Folks,
Jeroen, Tyler an I have met in Bolsena. As expected it was very efficient
to meet f2f and we got quite a few things done. We will put together a
small report but have all been too busy which is why I did not pipe up
earlier (and neglected to blog [0] on the days 4, 5 and 6 of Bolsena).

One point that we discussed at length was the role of the board. As a
result we want to suggest to change the focus of the board meetings a bit.
We want to have more discussion and to bootstrap this also intend to ask
directors to put forward a small report on what each of us is doing. The
intention is to get just a bit more liveliness back into this group
because we feel that we have a lot more potential that OSGeo can draw on.
With the upcoming elections Jo put forward a few suggestions which I feel
are worth discussing in more depth. Feel free to follow up via mail.

We will also try out a another communication service where we can actually
talk to each other without annoying static and having people fall off the
line or lag behind. Ideally it will be supported by a web extension to
share slides, notes, etc. We are still working on this. If you are savvy
on any of this please get in touch with Tyler.

On the same issue we want to suggest to move the meeting to a more
comfortable day of the week and meet on Thursdays. I propose that we have
our next meeting next week Thursday at 15:00 UTC [1], please confirm that
you can make it. (And check your Skype account if we cannot manage to get
a viable alternative in place by then).

One agenda item for the meeting is to look into the contract for FOSS4G
2010, I'll send it around separately. Lorenzo tried to get things sorted
out before he left but I bumbled about it long enough to not get it done.
The good thing about this is that we can look into and straighten it out
some more.

Last item (at least in this mail): Please find out for yourself whether
you want to stay on the board and run for another term. Regardless of how
we will get the elections done I am keen on having a responsive and
diverse board so that we can keep up the good pace at which OSGeo is
forging on. On the same issue please let me know your opinion on the
president's role. It has taken me considerable time to grow into it and
just lately it seems to start making sense. Originally I was sure that one
year would be more than enough but now I think that maybe some continuity
in this role would actually be a good thing for OSGeo. This is hard to say
while being in that role so please be straight forward honest on this
matter, either publicly or off list. Any feedback is welcome. You cannot
hurt me.

All of this is also addressed to all lurkers on this list, you are not
hanging around for nothing, you must have an opinion. Speak up.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

[0] http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-07-09

-- 
Arnulf Christl
President OSGeo
http://www.osgeo.org

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