Annual General Meeting 2007

Venue / Timing
 * Monday, September 24th, 4:30-6:00pm after workshops on first day of FOSS4G
 * Held in main conference lecture theatre

Objectives --
 * If you are presenting during this event, please be sure to touch on each of these objectives:
 * Update the community
 * Discuss issues and ideas
 * Present clear opportunities for community to be involved

Schedule
This will be a 90 minute session, roughly scheduled as follows. Meeting will be moderated by Tyler Mitchell. Contact him for more info or to inquire about being added to the agenda.

State of OSGeo

 * Frank Warmerdam, OSGeo President
 * Tyler Mitchell, OSGeo Executive Director
 * Current state, financial report, future direction/approach, membership report
 * Goals for 2007/08, priorities, funding plans

Local Chapter Reports

 * 1)  Austraila/New Zealand:  Tim Bowden
 * 2) Francophone: Yves Jacolin
 * 3) Italian: Massimiliano Cannata
 * 4) Ottawa:  Scott Mitchell
 * 5) Spanish:  Lorenzo Becchi, Jorge Sanz
 * 6) Taiwan: Sander Borghuis
 * 7) United Kingdom:  Jo Cook
 * 8) GAV: new proposed name OSGeo DACH, the German language embassy:  Arnulf Christl

Committee Reports

 * 1) Conference: Jeff McKenna
 * 2) Education: Charlie Schweik
 * 3) Journal: Tyler Mitchell
 * 4) Public GeoData: Jo Walsh

Software Project Reports

 * 1) GDAL/OGR -  Frank Warmerdam
 * 2) GRASS -  Helena Mitasova
 * 3) GeoNetwork opensource -  Jeroen Ticheler
 * 4) GeoTools -  Jody Garnett
 * 5) MapServer -  Daniel Morissette
 * 6) OSSIM -  Mark Lucas
 * 7) OpenLayers - Chris Schmidt and  Erik Uzureau
 * 8) MapGuide Open Source -  Bob Bray
 * 9) Mapbender -  Arnulf Christl

Open Discussion / Panel / Closing
This will be for some open discussion on various topics. There will be time for questions/discussion from the floor but time is going to be tight so discussion needs to be focused.
 * 1) Membership ideas and status
 * 2) Fundraising goals and methods
 * 3) Conference direction, naming, maintaining consistency
 * 4) OSGeo & standards