Annual General Meeting 2018

Venue / Timing

• WHEN: Thursday 30 August from 8am-9am (60min)
• WHERE: Selous main hall, of the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre
• 60 mins - early in the morning. Please show up on time.

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 two 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 correspondent section.

Add you content to the shared Slides

This year we are going to use shared slides to setup the presentation for the meeting.

Please use the shared slide. Two slides/minutes each for a status update. You can provide an extended status report in your project and add the link to this wiki and to the presentation.

The shared slide deck is available here (request edit access if required):

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1imiG7x09ry7lGvmS15FCVq2Z7yaICY00fcpXBK27TXY/edit?usp=sharing

How a report could look like

• https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/GeoTools-Annual-Report-2017

Board members attending in person

• María Arias de Reyna (OSGeo President will chair the AGM)
• Maria Brovelli
• Jody Garnett
• Mike Smith - Treasurer
• Vasile Craciunescu
• Jeff McKenna
• Astrid Emde Secretary

OSGeo report (10 mins)

Here is what OSGeo has been up to in the last year:

• Introduction to OSGeo - more than just the FOSS4G conference :)
• Here is what we have done in the last year
  • Here is all the events we have sponsored for the year
  • photos and stats from events
  • photos and stories from code sprints
• Here are our volunteers and leaders thank you
  • Pictures from committees and initiatives
• Website
• Budget - we are financially stable
• Elections are coming up

Contributing to OSGeo report

• tbd

Project Reports (15 mins)

Please use the shared slide. Two slides each for a status update. You can provide an extended status report of your project by adding the link to the presentation

• 2 mins: Projects and Incubation, status sent to discss@osgeo.org - Report by Jody Garnett
• GeoTools Report - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Jody Garnett
• Mapbender - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Astrid Emde
• MapServer - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Jeff McKenna
• ZOO-Project - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Gérald Fenoy
• GRASS GIS - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Luca Delucchi
• Oskari - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Timo Aarnioi
• QGIS - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Marco Bernasocchi
• pycsw - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by (to be determined)
• OpenLayers - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by (to be determined)
• GeoNode - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Simone Dalmasso
• ORFEO ToolBox - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Gérald Fenoy
• GeoNetwork - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by María Arias de Reyna
• istSOS - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Milan P. Antonovic

Community Project Reports (TBD mins)

• pgRouting - releases, committers, status, challenges. Report by Rohith Reddy

Local Chapter Reports (15 mins)

Please use the shared slide. Two slides each for a status update. You can provide an extended status report of your local chapter by adding the link to the presentation

you need to sign up to be presented

• 2 mins: Local chapter report by Astrid Emde
• 2 mins: OSGeo Website for Local Chapters - Astrid Emde
• 2 mins: OSGeo Ottawa Local Chapter - Jerome St-Louis
• 2 mins: OSGeo Pacific Islands Chapter - Edwin Liava'a
• 2 mins: OSGeo Romania Chapter - Vasile Craciunescu
• 2 mins: OSGeo Italian Chapter - Luca Delucchi
• 2 mins: OSGeo Australia and New Zealand Chapter - Alex Leith, Adam Steer
• 2 mins: OSGeo Francophone Chapter - (to be determined)
• 2 mins: OSGeo Dutch Chapter - (to be determined)
• 2 mins: OSGeo Korea Chapter - (to be determined)
• 2 mins: Geoinquiet@s Argentina - Report by Malena Libman
• 2 mins: OSGeo Irish Chapter - (to be determined)
• 2 mins: OSGeo Europe Chapter - (to be determined)
• 2 mins: OSGeo Finland Chapter - Report by Pekka Sarkola
• 2 mins: GeoInquietes Sevilla - Report by María Arias de Reyna

Partners (6 mins)

OSGeo partners with organizations world wide, this block provides our partners a chance to address:

• 2 mins: slot 1
• 2 mins: slot 2

Committee Reports (10 mins)

Committees: We expect a status update from each committee, please attend or nominate a delegate (see committees https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees)

Please use the shared slide. Two slides each for a status update. You can provide an extended status report in you project and add the link to this wiki and to the presentation.

• Google Summer of Code, and Google Code-in report (Victoria & Jeff)
• Marketing (Jody, Astrid)
• System Administration (Alex M, Jeff M)