[Strategic] next Strategic meeting Friday February 18th, 4pm GMT

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Strategic
>
> Our next meeting is scheduled for this Friday February 18th, 4pm GMT, on
> #osm-strategic.
>
> Please send items for the agenda, or apologies if you can't attend.
>
> On the agenda
>
> Budgeting process.
> Wikimapia license issues
> Continue discussion of routing

According to the Board minutes from December[1] we have a deadline for
the "Budget" item.  Could we push the others to a future meeting
unless we wrap up budgeting early?

The direction from the board on this matter is as follows:

Spending Policy
The board resolved for the strategic WG to come up with a draft budget
based on the needs of other WGs and the community. Deadline for this
is february 28th.

The communications WG is asked to announce at the same time the
aforementioned resolution about the draft budget, plus MapQuest's
donation.

The draft spending policy is as follows:

    * Expenditures larger than 1000€ will be discussed by the board on
a case-by-case basis.
    * Expenditures smaller than 1000€ require only the signature of
the treasurer and any other member of the board (given by email).


The treasurer will ask for a quote for outsourcing the book-keeping job.

OSMF wants to financially support projects which are aligned towards
improving the data on OSM's DB, widen the reach of the Database. The
Strategic WG is encouraged to come up with a plan to build a project
incubator.

The board resolves to accept Oliver's proposal to obtain liability insurance.

The treasurer will look into options for switching banks. The board
feels that the current bank provides insufficient services, and there
is a need for redundant access to other board members.


[1] https://docs.google.com/View?id=d38xqz5_6fj2bcdcm