[Board] Meeting reminder: Thursday

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Daniel, calendar reminded now changed.
Of note, I'll be on holidays and out of town, and am not sure if I'll 
have an internet connection.
My comments in advance are below, in italics.

     roll call
     appoint meeting chair, meeting scribe/secretary
     Review and approve past minutes: Board Meeting 2013-06-13
/
//+1 I approve./

     Charter/Board elections update; Decision on how many new Charter 
Members are to be added (as per our by laws this year between 14 and 48)

/While I didn't note it at the time, I think that there is value in the 
"Charter Membership" being considered as a badge of honour, something 
which is difficult to obtain, and something that you only can gain by 
being voted into the role. To achieve that, we need to:
1. Have a vote.
2. Only accept a subset of people who apply. Last year we accepted 
everyone, and I think that was detrimental to the "Charter Member" 
brand. That said, I was in agreement that all proposed candidates were 
valuable.

I'm open to the number of people we accept. I suggest it should be at 
least as many people as last year, and less than 48. Maybe 25-30?

/    support for QGIS HackFest (sept 12-16) email
         asking for second installment: 750 USD
/
//+0/

     Repairing the OSGeo Service Providers page
         volunteers/funding specialists/something

/Can someone please describe what is required to fix this? Once we can 
describe what is required, I suggest going to the community and asking 
for a voluteer to see if they can fix it (assuming they are provided 
with sufficient privileges).
I'm -0 on paying someone to fix it at this point, until we have a 
groundswell of people asking for it.
I'm also open to suggesting we turn it off. If companies think it is 
worth having, then they will stand up and offer to fix it.
Of note, do we have any metrics about how often it gets used?
/
     OSGeo servers security issues
     OSGeo Booth at Nottingham
         Offer of booth from LOC; do we accept?
/Yes/
             booth size needed?
/At FOSS4G 2009, OSGeo had a double booth, and it was a popular booth, 
and base for many people.

/            Who to manage booth duty volunteers
/I suggest that board members at the conference should use the booth as 
a base.
We are the spokespeople for OSGeo.

/                possibly Jeff to setup wiki and distribute 
call-for-volunteers
/+1 Good idea. I suggest that a number of people on the OSGeo Advocate 
list will be willing to man the booth. As such, I suggest linking to 
Advocate profiles from the wiki you set up./

     Changes needed to Elections process
         documented at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category_talk:Elections
         likely needs to be put on hold until after elections, but, 
important to followup later

/I see this as low priority, where priority determined by finding 
volunteers motivated to "scratch an itch" to fix it. Is there a 
volunteer sufficiently motivated?/
/OSGeo is still effective under our current arrangement. Cleaning up 
bylaws burns up volunteer time without gaining anything productive as a 
consequence.

/    Need to update bylaws 
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
         possible half-day virtual meeting to go through necessary changes?
         suggestion by AdrianC: Board could produce an authoritative 
list of all the wiki pages considered to be approved

/If someone wishes to take on this task, maybe AdrianC? I'd be happy for 
them to do so./

amendments to the bylaws

  * /add your items here/
  * Decide on who to report this meeting summary to the Discuss list
  * Schedule next meeting



On 10/07/13 05:24, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> BTW, a note to Cameron: I received your Google Calendar invite, but it 
> is 12 hours too early. Please see 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-07-11
>
>
> On 13-07-09 3:21 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Just a reminder of our Board meeting this Thursday.
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-07-11 Note the 12.00 UTC
>> timeslot.
>>
>> The agenda is obviously too packed for 60 minutes, so I will likely
>> re-prioritize the items right before the meeting.
>>
>> (our global community is sure alive!)
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
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