Annual General Meeting 2007

This page is for planning the OSGeo Annual General Meeting, to be held during the FOSS4G 2007 event in Victoria, Canada.

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:
 * 1) Update the community
 * 2) Discuss issues and ideas
 * 3) Present clear opportunities for community to be involved

= Agenda = Session moderated by Tyler Mitchell

Format of talks will change as agenda fills up. Some portions may get switched into a lightning talk format to keep things moving. Most items are only proposed at the moment.

State of OSGeo

 * Tyler Mitchell, Frank Warmerdam (confirmed)
 * Current state, financial report
 * Future direction/approach
 * Membership report
 * Goals for 2007/08, priorities, funding plans

Local Chapter Reports

 * Francophone Local Chapter: Yves Jacolin (confirmed)
 * Aust/NZ chapter report: Tim Bowden (confirmed)
 * Spanish chapter: Lorenzo Becchi, Jorge Sanz (confirmed) | others available?
 * Ottawa chapter: User:Dsampson tentative
 * Taiwan Chapter: Sander Borghuis
 * UK: Jo Cook tentative (waiting for agreement from other UK people possibly attending)

Committee Reports

 * Journal: Tyler Mitchell (confirmed)
 * Public GeoData: Jo Walsh
 * Education and Curriculum ?
 * Board of Directors ?
 * Conference: Jeff McKenna

Software Project Reports

 * 4 or 5 minute lightning talk format
 * OpenLayers - Chris Schmidt and Erik Uzureau (confirmed)
 * GRASS -  Helena Mitasova (confirmed)
 * OSSIM - Mark Lucas (confirmed)
 * GeoTools - Jody Garnett (confirmed)
 * GeoNetwork opensource - Jeroen Ticheler (confirmed)
 * MapServer - Daniel Morissette (confirmed)
 * FDO
 * GDAL/OGR
 * Mapbender
 * MapBuilder
 * MapGuide Open Source
 * Quantum GIS

Open Discussion / Panel / Closing
This will be for some open discussion on various topics. Planned topics for discussion should be noted here before the event so there is time to prepare if needed. There will be time for questions from the floor but time is going to be tight.

Topics

 * Membership ideas and status
 * Fundraising goals and methods
 * Conference direction, naming, maintaining consistency
 * OSGeo & standards
 * ... add more here

General Ideas

 * Open Q&A floor
 * Community debate?
 * Panel with Board and VP's
 * Any awards or prizes?

Schedule
This will be a 90 minute session, roughly scheduled as follows.