Annual General Meeting 2016

Venue / Timing

• WHEN: Thursday 25 August, from 17:30-18:30
• WHERE: in the plenary Chamber, after the last session and before departure to the Gala dinner, during FOSS4G Bonn
• DURATION: 1 hour (can go later if necessary) (update: meeting ends promptly at 18:30 to allow attendance of gala event)

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

foundation:

• Venkatesh Raghavan President, OSGeo - OSGeo status overview (formal requirement)
• Jachym - Secretary - Secretary's brief report (formal requirement)
• Mike - Treasurer - Treasure's brief report (formal requirement)
• Vasile Crăciunescu - 2016 elections

project officers:

• GeoTools Report - Jody Garnett
• GeoServer Report - Simone Giannecchini
• istSOS Report - Milan Antonovic

local chapters:

• FOSSGIS e.V. - German language Local Chapter report by Marco Lechner
• Europe - Chapter in formation report by Dirkf
• OSGeo Korean Chapter Report by Sanghee
• OSGeo Finland Report by Kari_Salovaara
• OSGeo Czech republic Report by Jachym Cepicky
• OSGeo Dutch Language Chapter Report by Gert-Jan_van_der_Weijden
• OSGeo Japan Chapter Report by Toru Mori
• OSGeo Romanian Chapter Report by Codrina Ilie
• OSGeo Italian Chapter Report by Luca Delucchi
• OSGeo Spanish and Geoinquietos microchapters by Jorge Sanz and María Arias de Reyna
• add your name and topic

committees:

• Incubation Report - Jody Garnett
• Code of Conduct Committee - Steven Feldman
• Conference Committee (?)
• Finance Committee (?)
• Geo for All - Venkatesh Raghavan
• Marketing Committee Marc Vloemans
• Open GeoScience Committee (Maxi or Peter)
• Public Geospatial Data Committee (?)
• System Administration Committee (SAC) (?)
• UN Committee Massimiliano Cannata
• Website Committee (?)

This event ends *promptly* to allow attendees to walk to the gala event!

Alternative format

Alternate format suggested, time permitting.

• introduction from the board (budget, activities, etc.)
• lighting talk from comm & chapters
• questions and discussion with the board (with a call for questions before of the meeting)

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

• add your name and question (or discussion topic)