[Belgium] Meeting notes OSGeo Belgium meeting 19 May 2015

[Jeff McKenna]

You might want to record your meeting minutes directly into the wiki (as 
an example see http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-04-09)

-jeff



On 2015-05-21 1:11 PM, Rita Vermeersch wrote:
> Will integrate in the minutes and post them on wiki.
>
> Wrg,
> Rita
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: belgium-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:belgium-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Moritz Lennert
> Verzonden: donderdag 21 mei 2015 9:44
> Aan: belgium at lists.osgeo.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Belgium] Meeting notes OSGeo Belgium meeting 19 May 2015
>
> On 21/05/15 08:44, Rita Vermeersch wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I updated the minutes slightly, a/o. the remark I received from Tommy.
>
> Sorry, didn't have the time to look at it, yesterday.
>
> Just one remark from my side:
>
> 4. Participation "Salon des Mandataires" (18 & 19 Feb 2016) "These kind of
> events could indeed be interesting to attend and to promote OSGeo Belgium,
> but this event in particular is more focused on French part of Belgium (not
> Flemish) and also very political. So perhaps not that interesting to
> participate in this one."
>
> I don't think that the reason invoked for not participating was its
> political nature, nor that it is only for Wallonia. I think that in this
> country we will always be confronted with events that only target part of
> the country. The main reason for me was lack of resources and the fear of
> being a bit lost amongst Glutton cleaners, heavy construction machinery and
> busses. I would actually say that the presence of politicians could be a
> good motivation for going in view of our lobbying mission.
>
>>
>> Can anyone post these minutes online? Or let me know how and where to
>> post them?
>
> Ideally all minutes should go as a page to the OSGEO Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> Once you've created an account and logged in, just call a URL such as
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150521
>
> and edit the page.
>
> You can look at
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo-BE-meeting-20150415
>
> for an example.
>
> However, I think that we should be pragmatic and that posting a text
> processing document is fine as well. Just maybe we should use a real open
> standard format such as .odt ? ;-)
>
>
> Moritz
>
>