[Belgium] Meeting notes OSGeo Belgium meeting 19 May 2015

[Dirk Frigne]

Moritz,

I second your remark on 4.
I think our first focus now is to have our first own Belgium event, try
to make the community in Belgium stronger, get developers together,
promote the OSGeo values and assets.



Dirk

On 21-05-15 13:11, 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
> 
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Yours sincerely,


ir. Dirk Frigne
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