<div dir="ltr">Tuesday while Helena is still in town, all our stuff happens Monday-Tuesday.<div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_7764972189244684161gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 at 13:16, Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_7764972189244684161m_3319654124037375631WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Michael Smith – travel and accommodations booked. Govt travel approved. Workshop on Thursday afternoon.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ll be at the members meeting. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">What day is the Sponsors/Partners meeting?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 4:12 PM<br><b>To: </b>Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>>, Helena Mitasova <<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>>, Michael Smith <<a href="mailto:michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.smith.erdc@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>osgeo-board List <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>foss4gna board participation and coordination part 2<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_7764972189244684161_m_3319654124037375631__MailOriginalBody">Okay we have three weeks to go, some updates and coordination are needed.<u></u><u></u></a></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>1) osgeo attendance / board member presence<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Board members:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- Helena Mitasova - confirmed! believe travel and accommodation are booked <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- Jeff McKenna - not confirmed<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- Michael Smith - confirmed<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- Jody Garnett - confirmed, travel booked<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Members at large:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>- New osgeo</span><span><span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">・</span></span><span>us chapter members should be present, would be good to coordinate<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><i>While we have booth materials (banners,hand outs) present in st-louis, the exhibitor area has sold out. Currently looking at having out banners scattered around at the event as hosts.</i></span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>2) Schedule a member meeting at foss4gna<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Timeslot established, we can borrow the un-meeting format from code-sprint. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><a href="https://2018.foss4g-na.org/bof-session/osgeo-members-meeting" target="_blank"><span>https://2018.foss4g-na.org/bof-session/osgeo-members-meeting</span><span></span></a><span><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Promotion of this activity will be needed.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>3) Schedule a Sponsors/Partners meeting <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Currently we have a time slot (7:30-9:00 Breakfast meeting), and a reservation.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>I have sent a lit of sponsors and partners in North America to the board-priv list, we will need to send out email invites and see who can join us.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Reservation asks us to respond with final headcount ... for COB tomorrow. Given that we have not started inviting anyone I think we should aim for 15-20 people.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>4) Travel Grant Program<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>While the conference committee has now gotten back to us, the time is too short to arrange anything for the event. While this is a disappointing result (especially given diversity goals) I hope the coordination can be improved on for other regional events such as foss4g-eu and foss4g-asia.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>--<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Jody Garnett<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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