February 3-5 looks good for me too. I would probably need to fly home on the afternoon of the 5th.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seven@arnulf.us">seven@arnulf.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Board,<br>
between 3rd and 5th of February could be a perfect fit for me as I am<br>
about to book flights to and from Vancouver during that time and could<br>
still shift schedules slightly. Earlier is not possible because I will<br>
be in South America from December 28th and all of January. On 1. of Feb.<br>
I will fly to Vancouver and could stay until the 5th (Sun. that weekend)<br>
for an f2f meeting (there or in Seattle). That would be right before the<br>
IslandWood code sprint.<br>
<br>
After that I will be in Calgary on March 5th and plan to go back to<br>
Germany but could also go elsewhere in NA on my way back. I have to be<br>
back in Germany on the 19th when FOSSGIS starts.<br>
<br>
Jeff,<br>
if you are at home between March 4th and 8th I might come over for a few<br>
days and then fly via Reykjavik to Germany with Iceland Air.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Arnulf<br>
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On 12/13/2011 11:19 AM, Jo Cook wrote:<br>
> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> A weekend would be better for me, and in terms of booking flights from<br>
> the UK it would be good to get a date asap so I can get the best deal.<br>
> It's looking like around £550 return at the moment for flights in<br>
> January, including my train ticket to get down to Heathrow, according to<br>
> dear old skyscanner.<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
> Jo<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Michael P. Gerlek <<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Scheduling it over a weekend would be fine with me, I sure we could<br>
> arrange something.<br>
><br>
> _mpg<br>
><br>
><br>
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</div><div class="im">> [mailto:<a href="mailto:fwarmerdam@gmail.com">fwarmerdam@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:fwarmerdam@gmail.com">fwarmerdam@gmail.com</a>>] On<br>
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> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11:46 AM<br>
</div><div class="im">> To: <a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a>><br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [Board] F2F meeting request<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a><br>
</div><div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com">mpg@flaxen.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> > Having voted down Mark's motion, I feel we need to quickly provide<br>
> the support and backing required to resolve the question of the NA<br>
> chapter and conference. And I continue to think a f2f meeting of<br>
> the board, as discussed at our meeting in Denver, would resolve this<br>
> and some of the other long-term issues we have.<br>
><br>
> Michael,<br>
><br>
> Somewhat like Daniel, I think the NA chapter community needs to gel<br>
> a bit and self-clarify before it is approved as a chapter. I don't<br>
> see that the board has a large role in this.<br>
><br>
> There is certainly an outstanding question whether we want a NA<br>
> conference to be an act of OSGeo global or a more locally organized<br>
> event and to some extent this is something the board needs to decide.<br>
> I'm personally in favor of it organizing locally rather than being a<br>
> direct act of the board or conference committee.<br>
><br>
><br>
> > I propose two days during the week of January 23rd, using a hotel<br>
> at the Seattle airport as the venue.<br>
><br>
> I'm afraid I do not have any vacation days available for such a<br>
> meeting, and if I did, I'd be holding them for vacationing with my<br>
> children.<br>
><br>
> I still feel we haven't exhausted less demanding means of working<br>
> through some issues and I suspect some issues are not going to ever<br>
> achieve a strong consensus.<br>
><br>
> I know some board members feel we need to dig deep and come up with<br>
> a common understanding of where OSGeo is going. I don't actually<br>
> feel this is necessary and to a large extent I feel that OSGeo will<br>
> be the sum of what it's devotees make it by pursuering their passions.<br>
><br>
> That said, I would like us to consider where we can apply the modest<br>
> capacity of the foundation (primarily finanical) to support efforts<br>
> that are of particular strategic value.<br>
><br>
> For me, three forks along this line that might be useful are:<br>
><br>
> 1) Providing support for folks to speak on behalf of the foundation<br>
> at events of various kinds. Roughly this is the ambassadorial role.<br>
> We are certainly dependent on volunteers to actually fill this sort<br>
> of role effectively.<br>
><br>
> 2) Providing support for marketing efforts. Mostly I see this as<br>
> funding production and provision of materials including flyers, live<br>
> DVDs and such for chapters to offer.<br>
> This would be under the administration of the marketting committee.<br>
><br>
> 3) Direct support of packaging the OSGeo suite for strategic<br>
> platforms. To me the best leverage for this is the OSGeo4W package<br>
> and I would love to see something similar for the Mac. I would like<br>
> to be able to provide modest financial support for a paid<br>
> integrator/tester/packager/documenter to push OSGeo4W forward.<br>
><br>
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