UN Meeting 2015-11-17
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This meeting is scheduled for the 17th of November 2015 at 16.00 UTC through IRC and follow up voting by email.
Agenda
Current items
Agenda:
- discuss structure of committee (chair, frequency of meetings)
- discuss goals of committee
- next steps
- please add your items here
Minutes
- Attending: Jeff McKenna, Jeroen Ticheler, Marco Minghini, Mikel Maron, Werner Leyh, Norman Vine, Vasile Craciunescu
- Presiding: Jeff
- Scribing: Jeff
Assigned Tasks
- [Sanghee] contact Mike for sending OSGeo seed money + FOSS4G surplus to OSGeo
- [All] arrange travel for Board F2F meeting, for 30/31 January in the Netherlands
Full, raw minutes notes
- 16:01 Meeting starts
- 16:16 Committee Structure
- jeff: I of course will represent OSGeo at the table, when "the president" is required. i wasn't sure if the OSGeo committee chair should be different?
- werner: I think for the committee jeff would be the best solution
- Jeff volunteers as chair
- all in support
- 14:07 Goals of the committee
- marco: leading members of GeoForAll GeoCrowd are very interested
- jeroen: Focus on software (applications) and education?
- werner: I told about openstreetmap , that does not mean that I will focus on data , but OSM is extremely important for our apps and should be on the table
- norman: agreed but OSM is not an OSGeo project
- mikel: HOT will also mention software as well, but I'm happy that OSGeo take the lead on the importance of open source
- jeff: i agree with a priority to educate through our service providers, as well as through the GeoForAll network (OSGeo's education arm)
- 15:14 Next meeting time: 2015/12/10 + 14:00UTC Board Meeting 2015-12-10