Face to Face Meeting Lausanne 2006

Meeting

The board has proposed getting people together for a second face-to-face meeting at FOSS4G2006, Lausanne, Switzerland.

September 11th, 2006 at Lausanne, Switzerland. A room is reserved on the Campus (conference site).

The meeting is just preceeding the FOSS4G2006 conference September 12-15.

Board members and committee members of VisCom, WebCom and the Fundraising committees are encouraged to attend.

Start: 09:00

discuss time line for infrastructure move and which services will be established
discuss goal implementation for 2006
how to enable more people to participate in OSGeo efforts (make it less north America centric which is getting an issue in European GFOSS communities)
discuss small projects hosting (like gpsd) - "OSGeo friends projects"
improve communication flow (for the masses) - Board blog as info aggregator?
define Logo usage (protection vs. promotion/branding)
plan conferences framework - where and how to launch OSGeo related conferences around the globe
discuss how Executive Director role will work (hopefully with new ED!)
what are we doing for the projects?

We should really figure out what the title and requirements of membership are. At FOSS4G2006 many people will want to know how to become a member

Continue the 2005/2006 budget + ideas for 2007
General strategy discussions.
Discuss the stated priorities and how we meet them.
Make sure that the VisCom is as focused on promoting OSGeo projects as it is OSGeo itself, (if not more?)
Try to reach consensus on new projects to admit to incubation.
Discuss ideas for starting cross-collaboration between projects.

Complete launch of Foundation Sponsorship and hopefully Project Sponsorship.
Identify sources of income, plan efforts. Hopefully approach some sponsors at FOSS4G.

Click here for the meeting minutes Meeting Minutes Lausanne 2006.