Annual General Meeting 2017

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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 three or four 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 list.

Lightning Reports / Talks

OSGeo Foundation:

• Helena - Vice - President, OSGeo - OSGeo status overview (formal requirement)
• Jachym - Secretary - Secretary's brief report (formal requirement)
• Mike - Treasurer - Treasure's brief report (formal requirement)
• Vasile - 2017 elections
• Release of new Website - Jeffrey Johnson: details to follow over course of meeting

Project Reports:

• OSGeo Website for PSC members - Jeffrey Johnson: new user outreach, project content, working with service providers
• GeoTools Report - Jody Garnett
• GRASS GIS - Vaclav Petras
• Add Project Names

Local chapters:

• OSGeo Website for Local Chapters - Jeffrey Johnson: new user outreach, open source advocacy
• OSGeo Korean Chapter Report by Sanghee
• OSGeo Italian Chapter GFOSS Report by Maria Brovelli
• add your name and topic

Committees:

• OSGeo Website for Committee Chairs - Jeffrey Johnson: new member outreach, working with partners
• Marketing Committee - User:Marc Vloemans
• Incubation Report - Jody Garnett
• Code of Conduct Committee -
• Conference Committee (?)
• Finance Committee (?)
• Geo for All - Helena Mitasova
• Open GeoScience Committee
• Public Geospatial Data Committee (?)
• System Administration Committee (SAC) (?)
• UN Committee Report by Maria Brovelli

Awards

• Sol Katz Award

Board members attending in person:

• Helena Mitasova
• Maria Brovelli
• Sanghee Shin

Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested)

• add your name and question (or discussion topic)