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    Meeting about to start now. Please drop in if you have an interest.<br>
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    On 30/05/12 06:59, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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      I've set up a meeting next week to discuss then finalise the
      setting of an OSGeo Ambassador role. Hope to see many of you at
      the meeting, or if you can't make it, please share your thoughts
      (and vote?) on email before hand.<br>
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      Location: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo">irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo</a><br>
      Time:<br>
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            <th>Location</th>
            <th class="sep">Local time</th>
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                title="Current local time in Wellington">Wellington</a>
              <span class="small">(New Zealand)</span></td>
            <td>Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 8:30:00 AM</td>
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                title="Current local time in Sydney">Sydney</a> <span
                class="small">(Australia - New South Wales)</span></td>
            <td>Tuesday, 5 June 2012 at 6:30:00 AM</td>
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                title="Current local time in Rome">Rome</a> <span
                class="small">(Italy)</span></td>
            <td>Monday, 4 June 2012 at 10:30:00 PM</td>
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                title="Current local time in New York">New York</a> <span
                class="small">(U.S.A. - New York)</span></td>
            <td>Monday, 4 June 2012 at 4:30:00 PM</td>
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                title="Current local time in San Francisco">San
                Francisco</a> <span class="small">(U.S.A. - California)</span></td>
            <td>Monday, 4 June 2012 at 1:30:00 PM</td>
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      The current proposal is here:<br>
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        href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Ambassador</a><br>
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      This topic has been discussed by many of you on discuss, marketing
      and board email lists. Here is a summary of comments, along with
      my suggestions:<br>
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      1. There has emerged to be two roles which people have been
      categorising under the title of "OSGeo Ambassador"<br>
      a. Someone knowledgeable in OSGeo, who can speak at conferences
      and the like. This is what we are focusing on for this definition
      of the role.<br>
      b. Someone who can negotiate MOU and similar on behalf of the
      OSGeo board. This is proposed to be treated separately, with the
      OSGeo Board delegated to someone they see fit to do the job, on a
      case-by-case basis.<br>
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      2.  There has been concern (from FrankW?) about defining a role
      which is exclusive and prevents people from just stepping up an
      volunteering. This is addressed by letting anyone who believes
      they have OSGeo experience and thinks them self worthy can step
      forward and volunteer.<br>
      <br>
      3. There has been concern (from Arnulf?) that our categorisation
      is too complicated. (We are proposing Board Members, Charter
      Members, Voted Positions, Community Members). I believe that we do
      need some way to define OSGeo experience, because that is one of
      the key criteria that conference organisors look for when
      selecting speakers and key notes. We can potentially de-emphasise
      the categorisation by moving it into the "Description" field
      rather than making a heading out of it.<br>
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>

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