<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Cameron,<div><br></div><div>my votes inline.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:04 AM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I unfortunately won't be at FOSS4G, however I think that OSGeo should cover expenses of board members doing board business. Dinner expenses should be covered.<br><br>As such,<br>I propose:<br>1. That current board member' and ex-board member dinner expenses are covered up to the cost of a 3 course meal and soft drinks. Alcoholic drinks to be covered by board members.<br>+1 Cameron<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+0 Bart</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>2. Non board members are welcome to join the meeting, but will need to cover their own expenses.<br>+1 Cameron<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 Bart</div><br><blockquote type="cite">On 11/09/2013 11:18 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I hope all Board (and interested community) members can give their<br>advice here on this Board mailing list today.<br><br>13 OGC Board members, it is quite an opportunity. So far I have the<br>following confirmed from OSGeo for this dinner:<br><br>- Frank<br>- Jachym<br>- Anne<br>- Ian<br>- Suchith<br>- myself<br><br>Note that we must each select our meal choices to Jeremy by Friday.<br><br>So maybe my original estimation of 8 from OSGeo is good for the reservation.<br><br>Should we just pay our own ways?<br><br>Looking for advice here. (note that this meetup has bounced around on<br>people's plates and finally fallen on my lap, with many sending direct<br>messages to me, so please speak publicly, as I am getting swamped)<br><br>-jeff<br><br><br><br>On 2013-09-10 2:41 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Forwarding to OSGeo Board. Board: we'll need to decide asap whether to<br>move forward, motion to approve use of funds, or not.<br><br>-jeff<br><br><br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: Plans for OGC/OSGeo Board meetup<br>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:26:18 +0100<br>From: Jeremy Morley <<a href="mailto:Jeremy.Morley@nottingham.ac.uk">Jeremy.Morley@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>To: Debbie Greenslit <<a href="mailto:dgreenslit@opengeospatial.org">dgreenslit@opengeospatial.org</a>>, Suchith Anand<br><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>, Jeff McKenna<br><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>>, Ian Edwards<br><<a href="mailto:ian.edwards@metoffice.gov.uk">ian.edwards@metoffice.gov.uk</a>>, Mark Iliffe <<a href="mailto:psxmi@nottingham.ac.uk">psxmi@nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>CC: Denise McKenzie <<a href="mailto:dmckenzie@opengeospatial.org">dmckenzie@opengeospatial.org</a>>, Steven Feldman<br><<a href="mailto:steven@knowwhereconsulting.co.uk">steven@knowwhereconsulting.co.uk</a>>, "Mark E. Reichardt"<br><<a href="mailto:mreichardt@opengeospatial.org">mreichardt@opengeospatial.org</a>><br><br><br>Dear all, (would Jeff mind please forwarding to the OSGeo Board list),<br><br>We're just over a week away from the joint OSGeo/OGC dinner. At present<br>the reservation is for 25 people - I understand that includes 13 from OGC<br>the last I heard.<br><br>The restaurant have asked that diners please choose their courses in<br>advance, to be returned to them on Friday. I've attached the menu to this<br>email. Mark Iliffe (copied) will keep track and pass the list on to the<br>restaurant - please simply reply to him with your choices.<br><br>At the moment I've not specifically ordered drinks (water, wine, etc.)<br>given the mix of who's paying for what, but can do if asked.<br><br><br>Based on the list we can also resize the reservation.<br><br><br>Thanks for your help.<br>Jeremy<br><br>-- ------------------------------------------------------------ --<br>Jeremy Morley<br>Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute,<br>Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom.<br>Web: <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi</a> Twitter: jeremy_morley<br>Tel.: +44/0 115 84 68411<br>Email: <a href="mailto:jeremy.morley@nottingham.ac.uk">jeremy.morley@nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>On 10/09/2013 14:06, "Jeff McKenna" <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Ian,<br><br>You are encouraged to join, thanks, it will be great to have you there.<br>I can even see you leading some of this discussion, as I can tell that<br>you have passion for the OGC relationship. Please come along.<br><br>Also Arnulf, can you make it to this on Wednesday night?<br><br>-jeff<br><br><br><br>On 2013-09-10 9:58 AM, Ian Edwards wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Jeff,<br><br>Assuming I can solicit an invitation... I would like to join you at the<br>joint OSGeo/OGC dinner (paying my own way of course).<br><br>The conference falls at an ideal time to reflect on OGC's Ideas4OGC<br>process[1], and I have a strong feeling that there are opportunities to<br>build on our 2008 MoU to the benefit of both communities.<br><br>We have a place holder for a BoF session early on Friday 20th to get<br>more open discussion and feedback[2], but one of the outcomes from<br>Wednesday evening may be that we would like to make use of other<br>opportunities during the FOSS4G week.<br><br>Many thanks,<br><br>Ian<br><br>Ian Edwards,<br>OSGeo UK<br><br>[1] <a href="http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/LeaderShip">http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/LeaderShip</a><br>[2]<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#OGC.2FOSGeo_meet_u">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#OGC.2FOSGeo_meet_u</a><br>p<br><br><br><br>On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Jeff McKenna<br><jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com>><br>wrote:<br><br> Hi Jeremy, Board,<br><br> Oh ok, I didn't know that you are not on the Board list.<br><br> I myself don't have a ticket for the ice breaker, so I am confirmed.<br> Including Daniel and Frank (emailed me directly), we'll likely have<br> between 4 and 8 OSGeo Board members there. I also want to include<br> Arnulf, who has been a constant driving force between uniting<br>OGC-OSGeo.<br> (Jachym, I'm not forgetting your potential inclusion either)<br><br> I would say to reserve a table for 20 (12 OGC Board members, plus<br> roughly 8 OSGeo reps).<br><br> I would then estimate a cost of roughly 35pounds each (inc a drink,<br>and<br> tip), which would mean approx 1100 USD (or 550 USD each for OSGeo<br>and<br> the OGC).<br><br> If the Board is interested, I would make a motion to approve the<br>use of<br> $550 maximum for an OGC-OSGeo meetup.<br><br> General reaction by the Board?<br><br> As Daniel pointed out, there is already an OGC-OSGeo meetup planned<br>for<br> Friday morning (I was already confirmed for attending that):<br> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#OGC.2FOSGeo_meet_u<br>p<br> It could be that the OSGeo Board decides as a group to attend<br>that, and<br> not set aside funding for a separate meetup.<br><br> Speak up as Jeremy needs our thoughts now.<br><br> -jeff<br><br><br><br> On 2013-09-03 8:21 PM, Jeremy Morley wrote:<br> ><br> > Jeff,<br> ><br> > Note that I'm not on the board mailing list so it may be only you<br> who saw<br> > the original email - it may be useful to be able to post to the<br> list for<br> > this conversation, otherwise please relay my messages.<br> ><br> ><br> > Anyway, yes, the current plan is that there's this relatively<br>formal<br> > get-together with the OGC board (12 of them, I think) at 7pm on<br>the<br> > Wednesday (18th) as a dinner in the hotel restaurant. The cost is<br> £24/head<br> > for the three course meal, drinks additional, but including VAT<br> (our sales<br> > tax).<br> ><br> > There is the FOSS4G ice breaker at the same time - I don't know<br> (meaning I<br> > don't know, rather than "I don't think it is") if this is the sort<br> of the<br> > thing the OGC Board would want to attend. The OGC guys aren't<br> registered<br> > at the conference generally (their meeting is separate on the<br> Thursday)<br> > and so they'd have to buy ice breaker tickets (as would you guys).<br> There<br> > was also some suggestion of a half-way house of a drinks reception<br> for the<br> > two (or three including AGI) groups.<br> ><br> > In the end I'm pretty neutral about this. It seems to me that for<br> a formal<br> > "meeting of minds" such as this it does really need to be done in<br> a more<br> > private space than the ice breaker to allow discussion to properly<br> happen.<br> > The aim isn't just to party together is it? This seems to be the<br> sort of<br> > thing that board members of organisations are there for, for<br> diplomatic<br> > talks with other organisations. It may therefore be something that<br> one or<br> > both organisations or else their representative members have to<br> stump up<br> > for - we may be able to find a cheaper menu if that's the problem.<br> ><br> > Still, that's just my view. The bottom line is that the EMCC<br>event<br> > manager and I are running through all the bookings to confirm<br> orders on<br> > Monday morning (British Summer Time) and I'll need to know by then<br> what<br> > the confirmed plan is. At present I will stick with the meal plan<br> unless<br> > told explicitly not to go ahead. I also need to have a reasonably<br>good<br> > handle on the numbers attending too, please.<br> ><br> ><br> > With regards, thanks, and some trepidation at the nearness of it<br>all,<br> > Jeremy<br> ><br> ><br></blockquote></blockquote><br>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee<br>and may contain confidential information. If you have received this<br>message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it.<br> Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this<br>message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the<br>author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the<br>University of Nottingham.<br><br><br><br>This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment<br><br>may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer<br>system, you are advised to perform your own checks. 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