Difference between revisions of "Annual General Meeting 2008"

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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

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.

Duration	Topic
10	State of OSGeo
30	Local Chapter Reports
20	Committee Reports
30	Software Project Reports
30	Open Q&A floor / Debate / Panel

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

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Committee Reports

OSGeo Journal - Tyler Mitchell

Software Project Reports

Mapbuilder - Steven M. Ottens
OpenLayers - Tim Schaub (co-presenters welcome)
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.

Priorities for 2009
Membership ideas and status
Fundraising goals and methods
Conference direction, naming, maintaining consistency
OSGeo & standards

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 # [http://www.osgeo.org/mapbuilder Mapbuilder] - [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Stvn Steven M. Ottens]
 # [http://openlayers.org/ OpenLayers] - [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Tschaub Tim Schaub] (co-presenters welcome)
+# [[MapServer]] - [[User:Dmorissette|Daniel Morissette]] (co-presenters welcome)
 == Open Discussion / Panel / Closing ==