<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 June 2017 at 05:37, Helena Mitasova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr">Jody,<div><br></div><div> I see - I thought you were talking about establishing new awards while you probably had in mind existing awards. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not we are fine for existing awards, we already planed as part of the AGM / Closing.</div><div><br></div><div>I reference one of our goals from <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016</a> specifically "celebrate excellence, openess and service to the OSGeo community". We opened the door by rewording this goal, to allow more than just the sol katz award, and now have an opportunity to follow through.</div><div><br></div><div>Awards need not be limited to foss4g, we have lots of great community members, and plenty of events world wide to choose from.</div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, given that AGM is now scheduled as one of parallel sessions we definitely don't need a room with 350 seats - I doubt that there will be more than 100 people present, some speakers for the committees and projects may actually have a conflict with their presentations but we can deal with that (I will send a separate email about the AGM)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure what to make of it Helena, it is going to be a scramble with several of the people we need for the AGM scheduled concurrently. Still that is the subject of another email thread.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><font size="1">Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences</font></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail-m_7526334811920773688gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><font size="1"><div><div>North Carolina State University</div><div>1125 Jordan Hall</div><div>NCSU Box 8208</div><div>Raleigh, NC 27695-8208</div><div><a href="http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/" target="_blank">http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/</a></div><div><a href="http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/</a></div><div><br></div><div>email: <a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a></div><div>ph: <a href="tel:(919)%20513-1327" target="_blank" value="+19195131327">919-513-1327</a> (no voicemail)</div><div>fax <a href="tel:(919)%20515-7802" target="_blank" value="+19195157802">919 515-7802</a></div></div></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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