[Board] agenda points for the next board meeting August 4

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hi Jody,

The wiki page for today meeting is

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-8-04

I updated the board of directors wiki page to reflect that.

Best,
Vasile



On 8/3/16 9:38 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> I do not see the adgenda on the
> wiki? https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
>
> For the other agenda points:
>
> - acknowledge new charter members
> - legal council update (mike/jody)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 2 August 2016 at 06:23, Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
> <mailto:dirk.frigne at geosparc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear board members,
>
>     In preparation for the board meeting next Thursday I added a new agenda
>     point and copied tree points of the previous meeting agenda to the list.
>
>     The new point is a status about the role OSGeo could play as
>     participating organisation for GEO [1]. This is a follow up from the
>     meeting 2016-04-14 where we discussed the potential partnership between
>     GEO and OSGeo.
>
>     about GEO in short: Established in 2005, GEO is a voluntary partnership
>     of governments and organizations that envisions “a future wherein
>     decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by
>     coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and
>     information.”
>
>     I had a conf call July 13 with Barbara Ryan and Paulo De Salvo about a
>     potential partnership.
>
>     The main activity is brokering in Geo-Data, and they need a lot of Geo
>     software. I proposed to become a partnering organisation. The role for
>     OSGeo should be the advocacy within the GEO organisation to promote
>     OSGeo software.
>
>     A partnership has no cost involved. They ask if we can attend and be
>     represented on the yearly conference [2] (this year November 9-10 in St
>     Petersburg), we should be able to ask some of our members who is already
>     attending the conference, if possible. ESA is a PO an OGC also. If we
>     could people in these organisations who could represent both ...
>     But I think it is important we (OSGeo) are represented in this
>     organisation.
>
>     If we agree with such a partnership I can try to find a solution for the
>     participation of the general meeting and GEO could go on with their part
>     of the acceptance protocol.
>
>     For the other agenda points:
>
>     - F2F meeting date at FOSS4G Bonn
>     I send out a doodle, please fill in so we can make a decision on the
>     board meeting.
>
>     -  Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter
>     I replied on all questions or remarks that where raised. So we should be
>     able to vote for the recognition of the new LOC.
>
>     - OSGeo AGM at Bonn
>     Already covered in mails earlier today. I think this point is ready to
>     be executed in Bonn, as Jody stated.
>
>
>     greetings,
>     Dirk
>
>
>     [1] http://www.earthobservations.org/index.php
>     [2] http://www.earthobservations.org/meetings.php
>
>
>     --
>     Yours sincerely,
>
>
>     ir. Dirk Frigne
>     CEO @geosparc
>
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