Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Minutes-2012-10-22

OpenStreetMap US board meeting October 22, 2012

Google Hangout

Roles

• Treasurer: Randy Hale, confirmed with four thumbs
• President: Martijn van Exel, confirmed with four thumbs
• Secretary: Alex Barth, confirmed with four thumbs
• Vice president: Jim McAndrew, cofirmed with four thumbs
• At large: John Novak, confirmed with four thumbs

501 c3

• $2,000 reapproved for any fees
• Alex will share ETA on 501c3 status by Monday

Working Groups

• We won’t revive them for reviving’s sake
• Discussion on osm.us web site relaunch
• Alex wants to work on this later in the year if no one else kicks this off until then
• Discussion on analytics
• We all have access
• Make it a regular part of meeting to decide on blog posts
• Meeting minutes go into Wiki

Other

• Richard Welty recommends
• Make executive committee formal in standing rules
• Pull in Bonnie for chairing a SOTM-us committee
• Standing rules are not formalized?

SOTM timing

• Richard: Get RFP for SOTM 2013 going early
• Alex: place SOTM us in first half of the year to position well w/ Int’l conference
• Martijn: window of opportunity for first half is closing, maybe closed.
• RFP last year went out in early December for October.
• Announcement in January
• Started organizing in August?
• Call for papers in May

Financials

• about $15k in account, there is money

Next actions

• Alex will work out a SOTM-US 2013 schedule with Bonnie and submit to board mailing list.
• Jim will draft Blog post announcing roles
• Martijn will look into formalizing standing rules.
• Alex will ask Bonnie whether she’d chair a SOTM-US committee
• Next week quick 15 minute google hangout on Monday, Martijn schedules
• Next main board meeting in November, Alex will send out doodle. This time we will invite former board members more formally to get their lessons learned and recommendations.