Difference between revisions of "Face to Face Meeting Lausanne 2006"

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Meeting

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

When and Where

September 11th, 2006 at Lausanne, Switzerland. A room is reserved on the Campus (conference site), just preceeding FOSS4G.

The meeting is in the conference room "A" (possibly room BP 1122) in building BP, findable on this Map. Send email to finance at foss4g2006.org with "F2F Parking Pass" in the subject for a PDF file for a free parking pass, or just pay at the site.

Attendees

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

Frank Warmerdam (Board, FunCom)
Venkatesh Raghavan (Board)
Jo Walsh (Board)
Dave McIlhagga (Board, FunCom, VisCom)
Mark Lucas (Board) Staying at Hotel du port 10 Sep - 16 Sep
Chris Holmes (Board, VisCom)
Arnulf Christl (Board, VisCom)
Markus Neteler (Board, Geodata, Edu)
Gary Lang (Board, FunCom)

Agenda

'''Morning Board-only Meeting starts at 09:00'''

09:00-09:15 - 15 min - Introduction, Agenda Review

09:15-09:30 - 15 min - Define Logo usage (protection vs. promotion/branding)

09:30 - 10:15 - 45 min - Define how Executive Director role will work.

10:15 - 10:30 - 15 min - Break

10:30 - 11:15 - 45 min - Discuss approaches investigated, and establish a timeline for infrastructure move and which services will be established.

11:15 - 11:45 - 30 min - Review and discuss goal implementation for 2006: Discuss the stated priorities and how we meet them. Assign driver and define next steps.

To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software) - PR, training, outreach, ... Promotion and Visibility Committee
To provide resources for foundation projects - infrastructure, funding (Fundraising), legal, ...
To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects.
To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - binary ""stack"" builds, cross package documentation, etc.
To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data (Public Geospatial Data Project)
To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects in order to build and preserve the foundation ""brand"".
To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities on different language (ie Java/C/Python) and operating system (Win32, Unix, MacOS) platforms.
To support use and contribution to foundation projects from the worldwide community through internationalization of software and community outreach.
To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (ie. EOGEO).
To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support (Core Curriculum Project).
To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community.

11:45 - 12:15 - 30 min - Membership

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

12:15 - 13:00 - 45min - Review what are we doing for the projects

In particular we want to make sure that the VisCom is as focused on promoting OSGeo projects as it is OSGeo itself, (if not more?)

Projects:

MapServer
Mapbender
MapBuilder
MapGuide Open Source (Gary: "Working infrastructure for MapGuide, good affinity groups")
GRASS
OSSIM
GDAL/OGR
GeoTools

Afternoon: Open attendance (13:00pm)

See Open F2F Meeting Lausanne 2006, the open meeting page.

OSGeo State of the Union
- What we've accomplished
  - Board Meetings
    - 17 Board Meetings
    - 3 f2f meetings
    - Constant communication, discussion, collaboration
  - Infrastructure
    - Initial Collabnet Infrastructure
    - Wiki
    - Telascience.org
  - Committees
    - Website Committee (WebCom)
    - Fundraising Committee (FunCom)
    - Incubation Committee (IncCom)
    - Promotion and Visibility Committee (VisCom)
    - Public Geospatial Data Committee (PublicGeodataCom)
    - Education and Curriculum Committee (EduCom)
    - System Administration Committee (SAC)
  - Conferences
    - OSCON
    - Where 2.0
    - FOSS4G2006
    - MapAsia 2006
  - Proposals and Responses to RFIs
    - Response to RFI for US Gov GeoSpatial
  - International and Local Chapters
    - China
    - India
    - Germany
    - Japan
    - Ottawa Chapter (Canada)
  - Memberships
  - Executive Director
- Where we are headed
- What we are missing
OSGeo communication and outreach
- Flyers
- Shirts etc
- Press releases

Meeting Minutes

Click here for the meeting minutes Meeting Minutes Lausanne 2006.

@@ Line 24: / Line 24: @@
 === Agenda ===
-Start: 09:00
+[['''Morning Board-only Meeting starts at 09:00''']]
-* discuss time line for infrastructure move and which services will be established
+'''09:00-09:15''' - 15 min - Introduction, Agenda Review
-* 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?
-==== Membership ====
+'''09:15-09:30''' - 15 min - Define Logo usage (protection vs. promotion/branding)'''
-*  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
+'''09:30 - 10:15''' - 45 min - Define how Executive Director role will work.
-==== Board ====
+'''10:15 - 10:30''' - 15 min - Break
-* 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.
-==== FunCom ====
+'''10:30 - 11:15''' - 45 min - Discuss approaches investigated, and establish a timeline for infrastructure move and which services will be established.
-* Complete launch of [[Foundation Sponsorship]] and hopefully [[Project Sponsorship]].
-* Identify sources of income, plan efforts.  Hopefully approach some sponsors at FOSS4G.
-==== Afternoon: Open attendance (1:00pm) ====
+'''11:15 - 11:45''' - 30 min - Review and discuss goal implementation for 2006: Discuss the stated priorities and how we meet them.  Assign driver and define next steps.
-See also [[Open F2F Meeting Lausanne 2006]], the open meeting page.
+# ''To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial industry (not just foundation software) - PR, training, outreach, ... [[Promotion and Visibility Committee]]''
+# ''To provide resources for foundation projects - infrastructure, funding ([[Fundraising]]), legal, ...''
+# ''To encourage the implementation of open standards and standards-based interoperability in foundation projects.''
+# ''To make foundation and related software more accessible to end users - binary ""stack"" builds, cross package documentation, etc.''
+# ''To promote freely available geodata - free software is useless without data ([[Public Geospatial Data Project]])''
+# ''To ensure a high degree of quality in foundation projects in order to build and preserve the foundation ""brand"".''
+# ''To encourage communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities on different language (ie Java/C/Python) and operating system (Win32, Unix, MacOS) platforms.''
+# ''To support use and contribution to foundation projects from the worldwide community through internationalization of software and community outreach.''
+# ''To operate an annual OSGeo Conference, possibly in cooperation with related efforts (ie. EOGEO).''
+# ''To provide support for the use of OSGeo software in education via curriculum development, outreach, and support ([[Core Curriculum Project]]).''
+# ''To award the Sol Katz award for service to the OSGeo community.''
+'''11:45 - 12:15''' - 30 min - Membership
+* 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
+'''12:15 - 13:00''' - 45min - Review what are we doing for the projects
+* In particular we want to make sure that the VisCom is as focused on promoting OSGeo projects as it is OSGeo itself, (if not more?)
+* Projects:
+# MapServer
+# Mapbender
+# MapBuilder
+# MapGuide Open Source (Gary: "Working infrastructure for MapGuide, good affinity groups")
+# GRASS
+# OSSIM
+# GDAL/OGR
+# GeoTools
+==== Afternoon: Open attendance (13:00pm) ====
+See [[Open F2F Meeting Lausanne 2006]], the open meeting page.
 * OSGeo State of the Union