[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Meeting Summary

[Cameron Shorter]

Minutes done. Sorry, not as pretty as Michael does them.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-12-13


On 14/12/12 08:24, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> One of my aspirations as president has been to describe the actions
> of the board to the broader community after each board meeting.
> I haven't been doing to well so far, but I shall try to do so now.
>
> We had a board meeting (by IRC) today.  The agenda, minutes, etc
> appear in the wiki (Cameron may not yet have added the minutes):
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2012-11-22
>
> Major items from the meeting:
>
> 1) We approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the
> Geomatics Laboratory of Como Campus of Politecnico di Milano
> (Italy).  In the last couple of years we have made great progress
> establishing or linking with open source geospatial labs at a
> variety of educational institutions.  This effort has been lead by
> Suchith Anand from the University of Nottingham.
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_Politecnico_di_Milano
>
> When we establish these relationships we normally appoint
> one or more contacts on behalf of OSGeo to a joint advisory
> committee.  Anne Ghisla has agreed to look into whether we
> have been doing that properly and who it ought to be in this
> case.
>
> 2) I stepped down as President.  I've found I don't have as much
> initiative for the role of president as I'd like, and it was my intention
> anyways to bring new blood into the role of President in the not too
> distant future.  So I decided to expedite things and Jeff McKenna
> has very kindly agreed to take on the role of President with the
> support of the board.
>
> I'm not going away, and will continue on the board and answering
> info at osgeo.org <mailto:info at osgeo.org> questions with Jeff also 
> assisting now.  Jeff has
> great enthusiasm for OSGeo and is very active around the world
> promoting the open source geospatial community and supporting
> it through efforts including MapServer documentation, MS4W and
> the Zoo Project.   I also count him as a valued friend of many
> years.
>
> 3) Last year the board had a very constructive face to face meeting
> in Seattle and we discussed whether to hold a one this year.  We
> did not come to a firm conclusion though we are considering a
> meeting alongside FOSS4G-NA this spring.
>
> 4) Daniel Morissette, or Treasurer, has been working very hard
> to regularize our 501(c)3 (charitable) status with the IRS (US tax
> service) and provided some brief updates including the response
> document at:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012
>
> 5) We also declared the board meeting of 2012-08-20 as our official
> AGM (Annual General Meeting) for purposes of corporate reporting.
> Normally the AGM is where a new board of directors is elected but
> since we do that by email our AGM is somewhat nebulous.  So we
> declared the board meeting at which those election results came into
> effect as our official AGM for reporting purposes.
>
> Our next board meeting will be held January 17th.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, 
> warmerdam at pobox.com <mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com>
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam 
> <http://pobox.com/%7Ewarmerdam>
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer
>
>
>
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