Board Meeting follow-up for December, 2008

Here are a few of the items from December's Board of Directors meeting. You can see the full set of notes and minutes here.

Local Chapter Approved: Cascadia

This request for official recognition as an OSGeo Local Chapter was approved.

Building on the Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS) group founded in February 2007, they applied to become an official OSGeo Local Chapter. Their geographic scope largely covers the US Pacific Northwest and, technically, into Southern British Columbia, Canada.

They meet monthly and also represent OSGeo at local events and are hoping to host a mini-conference in 2009. For more information see their OSGeo wiki page or contact one of the founders: Aaron Racicot, Josh Livni, Michael Gerlek or Dane Springmeyer.

Congratulations on becoming officially recognised and three cheers for being such an active local chapter!

MapServer Graduated from Incubation

The Incubation Committee recommended official graduation of MapServer, the Board accepted the recommendation and gave it official approval. Congratulations to the MapServer project and its team members.

2009 Budget Approved

The 2009 Budget was presented again for some discussion and final ratification. There was some discussion about increasing the budget in the future for the System Committee to possibly purchase new hardware. The budget also shows our dependency on setting up additional sponsorships to be able to meet the planned expenses.