Annual General Meeting 2008

Venue / Timing
 * Following closing plenary of FOSS4G 2008 around 5pm, Thursday, October 2nd, 2008.

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

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Schedule
This will be a 2 hour 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 2008/09, priorities, funding plans

Local Chapter Reports

 * 1) Francophone LC

Committee Reports

 * 1)  OSGeo Journal -  Tyler Mitchell

Software Project Reports

 * 1) Mapbuilder - Steven M. Ottens
 * 2) OpenLayers - Tim Schaub (co-presenters welcome)
 * 3) MapServer - Daniel Morissette (co-presenters welcome)

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) Priorities for 2009
 * 2) Membership ideas and status
 * 3) Fundraising goals and methods
 * 4) Conference direction, naming, maintaining consistency
 * 5) OSGeo & standards