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<center>Open Source Geospatial – Belgium ASBL (OSGeo.be)</center>

<center>Rue de la Croix de Pierre 13 box 2, 1060 Bruxelles</center>

<center>Enterprise number 0641.662.720</center>


<center>Extraordinary General Assembly</center>

<center>October 26th 2017, 17:25</center>

<center>At [http://bel.brussels/ BEL], Tour & Taxis : Avenue du Port 86c/3002, 1000 Brussels</center>


= Attendance =

<b>Present:</b>

<u>Voting members :</u>

* Christophe Guisset,

* Gaël Kruwialis (Administrator),

* Johan Van de Wauw (Administrator – President of the board), 

* Maëlle Vercauteren (Administrator),

* Marc Ducobu (Administrator – Treasaury of the board),

* Moritz Lennert,

* Oliver May (Administrator),

* Tommy Oozeer (Administrator – Secretary of the board)

* Roel Huybrechts

<u>Non voting members :</u>

* Jonathan Beliën,

* Mathieu Carette,

* ...


= Agenda =
# Debriefing of FOSS4G.be 2017
# Composition of the board (mandates will expire at the end of this year)
## New members
## Resignations
# Composition of the voting members
## New members
## Resignations
# Preview until next General Assembly (first quarter 2018)
## Plan actions about activities, events and strategy
# Various
# Closing of the general assembly
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= Resolutions =

== Debriefing of FOSS4G.be 2017 ==

* 270 registrations in 2016 and 250 this year
* promotion was not good enough, must be announced earlier. We need to organise ourselves better and propose an attractive offer to sponsors.
* place for sponsors was ok
* We should go more in depth with technical stuffs but we also need to have a general track
* We should allow more time for content
* Lunch pause was too long. We should avoid that people leave the building during the lunch
* We should keep the event free
* Some sponsors complained about the lunch (only 1 sandwich)
* The concept of an annual sponsorship should be improved
* BEL is a good place but the GeoDev can be organised elsewhere
* OSM attracted a lot of people, delegate a track to OSM ?
* We need demo sessions
* We should only allow one talk per company
* We should give water to the speakers
* Different languages is good to attract people from other countries
* Maybe we should collaborate with other OSGeo organisations
* We need to avoid competiion with other representations
* We need to save all presentations in one place
* There is definitely some work to do. Meet a saturday and spend the whole day ?
* A debrief meeting is needed
* There will be a FOSS4G.be 2018

== Composition of the board (mandates will expire at the end of this year) ==

If there are any candidate, please let us know.

== Composition of the voting members ==
=== New members ===
Jonathan Beliën and Mathieu Carette are new voting members.

== Preview until next General Assembly (first quarter 2018) ==
=== Plan actions about activities, events and strategy ===
* BeGeo will be organised on April 24th. It was successful in 2017. We may have a booth there.
* Organise new year reception ?
* Fosdem : global meeting on sunday February 2nd ?
* GeoDevNight on Postgres by Gaël at the end of the winter.
* GeodevNight on R by Marc
* Pyhthon event by Mathieu

Johan Van de Wauw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tommy Oozeer<br/>
President&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Secretary