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== Venue / Timing ==
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== Description ==
The Annual General Meeting for OSGeo is open to everybody. 

The goal is to:
* give an overall status of the organization+
* financial report+
* informing the members of previous and future activities from committees and local chapters
* discuss important issues and take decisions

+ These two are formal reports that make it an AGM

== Format ==

The AGM itself will be a succession of lightning talks (presentations limited to three or four minutes) given by you in your role as Local Chapter representative, Chair of a committee, representative of a software project, OSGeo director or administrator or whatever else makes up OSGeo. If you feel like you have to say something please add yourself to the list. 

Board members attending in person: 
* Helena Mitasova
* Maria Brovelli
* [[User:endofcap | Sanghee Shin]]
* [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett ]]
* [[User:Michael_Smith | Mike - Treasurer]]
* Vasile Craciunescu

=== Annual General Meeting / Closing Ceremony ===

==== AGM ====

OSGeo Foundation (10 min): single slide deck, already on stage, etc...

* 3 mins: [[User:helena | Helena - Vice - President]], OSGeo - OSGeo status overview (formal requirement)
* 2 mins: [[User:Jachym | Jachym - Secretary]] - Secretary's brief report (formal requirement)
* 1 mins: [[User:Michael_Smith | Mike - Treasurer]] - Treasure's brief report (formal requirement)
* 2 mins: Vasile - 2017 elections
* 2 mins: Release of new Website - [[User:Ortelius | Jeffrey Johnson]]: details to follow over course of meeting

Project Report (10 min): Single slide deck, two slides each for a status update, collect status report on discuss and summary in AGM

''Several projects have full talks accepted about the project update - we can ask the same person to provide 2-3 slide summary here''

* 3 mins: Jody - Projects and Incubation, status sent to discss@osgeo.org
* 2 mins: OSGeo Website for PSC members - [[User:Ortelius | Jeffrey Johnson]]: new user outreach, project content, working with service providers
* GeoTools Report - [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett ]]- releases, committers, status, challenges
* GRASS GIS - [[User:Wenzeslaus | Vaclav Petras ]] - releases, committers, status, challenges
* Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
* Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
* Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
* Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
* Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges

Local chapters (10 mins): single deck? this is a challenge, you need to sign up to be presented

* 3 mins: Local chapter report by [[User:endofcap | Sanghee ]]
* 2 mins: OSGeo Website for Local Chapters - [[User:Ortelius | Jeffrey Johnson]]: new user outreach, open source advocacy
* [[Korea | OSGeo Korean Chapter]] Report by [[User:endofcap | Sanghee ]]
* [[Italy| OSGeo Italian Chapter GFOSS]] Report by [[User:maria | Maria Brovelli ]]
* Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
* Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
* Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
* Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
* Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up

Committees (10 mins): single slide deck? we expect a status update from each committee, please attend or nominate a delegate 

* 3 mins: Maria - Introduce how committees work, thank the volunteers, and get out of the way
* 2 mins: UN Committee Report by [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]]
* 1 mins: GeoForAll -  [[User:Maria | Maria Brovelli]] - talk about new members/partners
* 2 mins: OSGeo Website for Committee Chairs - [[User:Ortelius | Jeffrey Johnson]]: new member outreach, working with partners
* 2 mins: Marketing Committee  - [[User:Marc Vloemans]]
* 1 mins: Incubation Report - [[User:Jive | Jody Garnett ]]
* 2 mins: Conference Committee (?) - anounce the next foss4g event
* Open GeoScience Committee 
* Public Geospatial Data Committee (?)
* System Administration Committee (SAC) (?)

===== Closing =====

Awards (20 mins):

* 5 mins: Developer Awards (GeoCat representative): (have a slide to cover finding awardee on screen)
* 5 mins: Student Awards - GeoForAll: (have a slide to cover finding awardee on screen)
* 10 mins: Sol Katz Award

Foss4g Closing (20 mins)


* 10 mins: Thanks you to volunteers, local organizing committee
* 5 mins: FOSS4G 2018 Invitation (video? link?). Hand over to next organizing committee
* 2 mins: Thank you for coming, lights out go home

== Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested) ==

We won't have time for an open mike, please provide questions ahead of time below:

* ''Q: How do you start a local chapter?''
* ''add your name and question (or discussion topic)''

[[Category: Annual General Meeting]]
[[Category: FOSS4G2017]]