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

[Cameron Shorter]

OSGeo Board,
Daniel reminded me that our protocol is to follow up with an email vote 
for motions from our meeting. See please vote on the following motions. 
+1 from me for all motions.

MOTION: dmorissette moves to accept minutes. aghisla seconds. Carried.
MOTION: dmorissette moves to adopt MOUwith Geomatics Laboratory of Como 
Campus of Politecnico di Milano. 2nd Jeff. Carried.
MOTION: Frank moves to have himself replaced by Jeff as president. 2nd 
aghisla. Motion carried.
MOTION: Frank moves that board meeting of 20 August 2012 be set as the 
AGM meeting. 2nd Daniel. Motion carried.



On 14/12/12 10:12, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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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>
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Solutions Manager
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
> Think Globally, Fix Locally
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-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
http://www.lisasoft.com

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