OSGeo-BE-meeting-20170228

OSGeo.be - Working group 28-02-2017

Present

• Johan
• Maëlle
• Oliver
• Dirk
• Julien
• Roel
• Arnaud
• Marc
• Moritz

Agenda

• FOSS4G 2017
• BeGeo
• Accountings

FOSS4G 2017

Date

26 ocotbre 2017

Place

• Ecole royale militaire (Dirk will contact Ingrid (IGN))

The possible alternatives are :

• IBGE (Moritz)
• ULB (Maelle)
• Flemish administration (near noth station / Dirk or Moritz)

Task / preparation calendar

Last meeting we create a calendar with dates & actions. Where it is ? Oliver will try to find it.

Maëlle would like to have monthly reports about the actions.

Call for sponsors

Dirk wants to send a letter to the sponsors of last year, asking them to sponsors us this year and the FOSS4G. We will offer to the sponsors to promote them during our next activites :

• BeGeo
• FOSS4G Europe

* we will invest 500€
* we will present our sponsor on promotional space we receive for the 500€ invest
* so our sponsors will sponsors FOSS4G Europe through us
* Moritz is ok with that but we have to fix conditions : we will only sponsors FOSS4G europe if we receiv XXX € of sponsors  

• OSGeoDevEvening
• ...

Dirk will write the letter in Dutch or English

We keep the sponsors level of last year.

Marc has the list of the sponsors (and their emails)

Special session about education

Maelle propose to organize during the FOSS4G a session about education. The goal is to have an overview of Free Software in the academic and in the research environment. Also organize a round table for sharing experience. There already exists a working group about this subject. Maëlle is looking for some speakers. Dirk can present something (case base learniing).

Maëlle will send a survey and a "Save the Date" to academics.

All the assembly approves the idea.

Dirk would like that we talk about this idea in OSGeo / BeGeo to give some inspiration to other poeple.

Mini-website about FOSS4G 2017

We have to announce the date on a simple website (and the session about education). Johan has change the address of the actual website to 2016.foss4g.be and create a 2017 version at www.foss4g.be

Concert at the end of FOSS4G

Maëlle propose to have a music concert at the end of the FOSS4G (to retain people for the AG).

No appoval :

• last year we had new member (the AG was successfull) so we do not need such event
• the event is only during one day

Code sprint on friday / sunday

Dirk propose to have a code sprint on friday or sundy. No approval : FOSS4G Belgium must focus on belgium (not europe)