OSGeo-BE-meeting-20160628

Present
Gaël Johan Maëlle Marc Oliver Tommy

Agenda
* Call for Papers * Call for Sponsors * Website * Organisation * Next meeting
 * FOSS4G-BE 2016
 * Miscellaneous

Call for Papers
The call for papers has been sent out via the OSGeo.be mailing list. For the moment, we only have 6 proposals. So, it is really time to spread the call for papers as widely as we can. We will also change the submission deadline and extend it to July 24th. Many actions are required :

Action: Maëlle : contact her boss in order to reach Geotamtam and GeoRezo Action: Maëlle : publish call for papers on the french mailing list Action: Tommy : publish call for papers on Facebook Action: Oliver : publish call for papers on Twitter Action: all : recontact last year submitters Action: Johan : contact FOSS4G Bonn submitters Action: all : contact a representative from each region to see if they would be interested by a keynote presentation Action: Johan : contact SoTM team to see if they would be interested by a keynote presentation

Call for Sponsors
Marc already contacted some potential sponsors. The list (together with the current status) is available here However, we still need to publish the call for Sponsors on the mailing list and everywhere else.

Action: Johan : publish call for sponsors on the OSGeo.be mailing list Action: Maëlle : publish call for sponsors on the french and international mailing list Action: Tommy : publish call for sponsors on Facebook Action: Oliver : publish call for sponsors on Twitter Action: all : contact directly potential sponsors and update the list

Website
The website urgently needs to be updated.

Action: Marc : add buttons to the home page in website Action: Gaël, Johan, Marc, Tommy : adapt call for papers deadline in website

Organisation
We will organise our work with Trello. Oliver will prepare something. To ease the communication in the team, members should try to be available via Skype on Thursdays evening. Oliver and Johan will check the info@foss4g.be mail account. Karine Jean is interested to help us with the organization of the FOSS4G Belgium.

Action: Oliver : prepare a Trello tasks list Action: Oliver, Johan : check the info@foss4g.be mail account Action: all : try to be available via Skype on next Thursday June 30th

Next meeting
The next meeting is not yet scheduled.