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Latest revision as of 03:12, 24 February 2015
Venue / Timing
- Following closing plenary of FOSS4G 2008 around 5pm (probably closer to 15h30), Thursday, October 2nd, 2008.
- This event will be chaired by Tim Bowden (tim.bowden _at_ westnet.com.au)
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
Schedule
This will be a 2 hour session, roughly scheduled as follows. Meeting will be moderated by Tim Bowden. Contact Tim or Tyler Mitchell for more info or to inquire about being added to the agenda.
| Duration | Topic |
|---|---|
| 10 | State of OSGeo |
| 25 | Local Chapter Reports |
| 15 | Committee Reports |
| 30 | Software Project Reports |
| 10 | Sponsors |
| 30 | Open Q&A floor / Debate / Panel |
State of OSGeo
- Arnulf Christl, 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
- Francophone - Yves Jacolin
- Aust-NZ- Tim Bowden
- Ottawa, Canada - Jeff McKenna
- Germany FOSSGIS - Till Adams
- Finland Chapter - Ari Jolma
- UK Chapter - Rob Newnham
- Korean Language Chapter - Sanghee Shin
- Spanish Chapter - Víctor Olaya
- Italian Chapter - (www.gfoss.it) - Paolo Cavallini/GFOSS.it (video)
- Quebec, Canada (in formation) Daniel Morissette
- Japan Chapter - Venkatesh Raghavan
- South Africa Chapter - Gavin Fleming
- India Chapter - Ravi Kumar Vundavalli
- Netherlands - Jeroen Ticheler
- Brazil - Felipe Costa
Committee Reports
- OSGeo Journal - Tyler Mitchell
- Marketing - Tim Bowden
- Conference - Jeff McKenna
- Education - Charlie Schweik
- Geodata - Schuyler Erle
Software Project Reports
- Mapbuilder - Steven M. Ottens
- OpenLayers - Tim Schaub (co-presenters welcome)
- MapServer - Daniel Morissette (co-presenters welcome)
- Geotools - Justin Deoliveira (co-presenters welcome)
- Mapbender - Arnulf Christl
- GRASS GIS - Markus Neteler (co-presenters welcome)
- QGIS - Tim Sutton, Marco Hugentobler (co-presenters welcome)
- GeoNetwork - Jeroen Ticheler
- deegree - Judit Mays
- gvSIG - Miguel Montesinos
Sponsors
- Introducing our sponsors
- WhereGroup GmbH & Co. KG - Arnulf Christl
- GeoCat - Jeroen Ticheler
- Autodesk - Peter Rieks
- 1Spatial - Crispin Hoult
- Boréalis - Patrick Grégoire / Yves Moisan
- Institut Geographique National - Emmanuel Séguin
- Camptocamp
- Unrepresented sponsors- Tim Bowden
- INPE
- LizardTech
- Ingres
- Astun Technology
- PCI Geomatics
- First Base Solutions
- Unrepresented sponsors- Tim Bowden
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.
- Priorities for 2009
- Membership ideas and status
- Fundraising goals and methods
- Conference direction, naming, maintaining consistency
- OSGeo & standards