[Belgium] reflections for the next meeting

[Moritz Lennert]

On 17/07/15 11:07, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> When is the next meeting? Seems I missed the call.

It's mentioned in the minutes of the last [1]:

"The next meeting is scheduled for July 24, 14:00, via Skype."

We should probably have announcement via the mailing list as well.

Moritz

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150703

>
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> As I won't be available for the meeting next Friday (I'll be away from email
>> from July 20 to Aug 10), here some reflections in preparation:
>>
>> - It is great to see so many candidates for the board. In my eyes, some sort
>> of equilibrium between companies, academic world and public administration
>> would be nice in the board.
>>
>> - Several different opinions have been voiced concerning the question of
>> membership of moral persons (i.e. companies, associations, administrations,
>> etc). I do not have a strong opinion on that, but a slight tendency towards
>> the solution of a specific, sponsoring, membership without voting rights.
>>
>> - We quickly need to decide on the languages for which we want to provide
>> translation. FR<->NL seems obvious, but what about FR<->EN and NL<->EN ?
>> This obviously immediately increases the costs (Maelle, at ISTI were there
>> no students for FR<->EN, either ?)
>>
>> - The website is almost ready to be launched, IMHO. I would suggest to
>> launch the calls for contributions and for sponsors immediately after the
>> meeting on Friday. As I won't be there, can someone take the responsibility
>> for disseminating the call for sponsors ?
>>
>> There are probably others points. If I think of them before I leave, I'll
>> send a second mail.
>>
>> Moritz
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