[Board] Minutes from 12 November meeting

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Dear Cameron, dear board
I agree with Cameron's observation on this. It would be good to refine the motion and be explicit on what is and what is not funded by OSGeo. And if there is a substantial budget involved (>4000$ per year including conference fee discounts etc) I think this needs broader support from the community, possibly by asking charter members for their vote of support. 
Cheers,
Jeroen

> Op 16 nov. 2015 om 20:07 heeft Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
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>> On 17/11/2015 3:58 am, Sanghee Shin wrote:
>> 2. MOTION: OSGeo to pay for travel and arrangements at FOSS4G Bonn for all board members if a F2F board meeting is planned for there
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> OSGeo Board,
> Is this the second f2f meeting within a year that the OSGeo board is proposing to be paid to attend?
> Also is this the first OSGeo Board who would be all sponsored to attend a FOSS4G event?
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> I'm concerned that this is a deviation from prior OSGeo principles, and looks externally to be self-serving.
> I suspect that travel costs would become a reasonable percentage of OSGeo's budget should regular board travel be approved.
> As such, I suggest it should be a line item in the OSGeo Vision as well as in the OSGeo budget. (I assume the current budget's travel allowance isn't sufficient to cover 2 board international trips?)
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