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: single slide deck
- 5 mins: Helena - Vice - President, OSGeo - OSGeo status overview (formal requirement)
- 5 mins: Jachym - Secretary - Secretary's brief report (formal requirement)
- 3 mins: Mike - Treasurer - Treasure's brief report (formal requirement)
- 3 mins: Vasile - 2017 elections
- 3 mins: Release of new Website - Jeffrey Johnson: details to follow over course of meeting
Project Reports: single slide deck, two slides each for a status update
Several projects have full talks accepted about the project update - we can ask the same person to provide 2-3 slide summary here
- 3 mins: OSGeo Website for PSC members - Jeffrey Johnson: new user outreach, project content, working with service providers
- 2 mins: GeoTools Report - Jody Garnett - releases, committers, status, challenges
- 2 mins: GRASS GIS - Vaclav Petras - releases, committers, status, challenges
- 2 mins: Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
- 2 mins: Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
- 2 mins: Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
- 2 mins: Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
- 2 mins: Add Project Name - releases, committers, status, challenges
Local chapters: single deck? this is a challenge, you need to sign up to be presented
- 3 mins: OSGeo Website for Local Chapters - Jeffrey Johnson: new user outreach, open source advocacy
- 3 mins: OSGeo Korean Chapter Report by Sanghee
- 3 mins: OSGeo Italian Chapter GFOSS Report by Maria Brovelli
- 3 mins: Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
- 3 mins: Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
- 3 mins: Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
- 3 mins: Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
- 3 mins: Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
- 3 mins: Add Local Chapter name - events, members, outreach, inspire, coming up
Committees: single slide deck? we expect a status update from each committee, please attend or nominate a delegate
- 3 mins: OSGeo Website for Committee Chairs - Jeffrey Johnson: new member outreach, working with partners
- 3 mins: Marketing Committee - User:Marc Vloemans
- 3 mins: Incubation Report - Jody Garnett
- 3 mins: Code of Conduct Committee -
- 3 mins: Conference Committee (?) - anounce the next foss4g event
- 0 mins: Finance Committee (?) - covered by treasurer report
- 3 mins: Geo for All - Helena Mitasova
- 3 mins: Open GeoScience Committee
- 3 mins: Public Geospatial Data Committee (?)
- 3 mins: System Administration Committee (SAC) (?)
- 3 mins: UN Committee Report by Maria Brovelli
Awards
- 3 mins: Developer Awards - GeoCat representative
- 3 mins: Student Awards - GeoForAll
- 3 mins: Sol Katz Award
Foss4g Closing
- 3 mins: FOSS4G 2018 Invitation
- 10 mins: Take a bow
Board members attending in person:
- Helena Mitasova
- Maria Brovelli
- Sanghee Shin
- Jody Garnett
- Mike - Treasurer
- Vasile Craciunescu
Open Q&A from OSGeo Members (and anybody interested)
- add your name and question (or discussion topic)