<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class="">In the past, we have had it right before the conference, or before the closing. Evening would be good too.<div class="">The reason is not that much whether it is of the interest for others (perhaps it could be) but that the officers cannot present and charter members cannot be there if they also have talks at parallel sessions.</div><div class="">Other solution would be to provide LOC with names of all people who need to be at AGM so that they don’t schedule a talk for them at the same time. But I think we are making this a bigger deal than it should be -</div><div class="">the request for having a meeting is already there - then no change is needed.</div><div class="">You can ignore my previous email,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Helena</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 20, 2017, at 11:54 PM, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">It is tricky because although we host foss4g, attending our AGM is of interest to a smaller portion of the attendees. <br class=""><br class="">I don't have any good ideas:<br class=""><br class="">- I seem to recall having the AGM in the evening, when people could go out or attend a BOF sessions. Would that be an okay approach?<br class="">- Alternatively we could try and have it prior to the conference we would need to be sure our officers could afford the extra nights accommodation.<br class="">- We could also consider doing it similar to f2f meeting after workshops.<br class=""><br class="">I guess we could just outline we need an hour long meeting and see what suggestions are proposed. <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 8:41 PM Helena Mitasova <<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" class="">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">I looked at the RFP and I would like to suggest minor modification on p. 5-6 to explicitely request that OSGeo AGM is given 60-90 minute time slot in the program when no other sessions are planned.<div class="">I would also reword </div><div class="">“OSGeo Community events and activity"</div><div class="">to </div><div class="">"OSGeo Community events and activity at FOSS4G”</div><div class="">to make it clear to the bidders that these activities are part of the conference.</div><div class="">Boston did a great job accomodating OSGeo events but it will be easier for future organizers </div><div class="">to have clear idea about these as they prepare the program.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The number of attendees on p. 4 should also be updated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not on conference committee so if there are no objections, Maria or Venka, can you please post this on conference list? As Jody has pointed out, the RFP for 2019 is supposed to go out next week.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 20, 2017, at 8:20 PM, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_2238251107083053710Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">If anyone is in position to post meeting mins please do so, I think we are all in transit so this will be tricky :)</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">We have a number of items to report back to the community in: osgeo-eu and analysis/feedback on foss4g affordability.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">In the AGM we had very firm instruction by the conference committee that any direction would be needed (by Monday?) to inform the proposal process in 2019.</div><div dir="ltr" class="">-- <br class=""></div><div class="m_2238251107083053710gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">--<div class="">Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">
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