[OSGeo-Board] Meeting Proposed Meeting Date

[Laura Rivera]

Of the 9 Board Members, 6 have confirmed their availability for
Saturday, June 17th in Chicago as follows.  Please advise if we are
moving forward with this venue/date so we can secure arrangements for
travel and accommodations.

Please note that this is an Action Item from the Board meeting on 4/28.

Confirmed:
Chris Holmes
Gary Lang
Mark Lucas
Markus Neteler
Jo Walsh
Frank Warmerdam

Unable to attend:
Dave McIllhagga

No Reply:
Arnulf Christl
Venkatesh Raghavan
 
Thank you,
Laura

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McIlhagga (External) 
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:54 AM
To: Markus Neteler
Cc: Jo Walsh; board at board.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Meeting Proposed Meeting Date

For travel purposes, I'd prefer to combine the working meeting around 
Where 2.0 if possible. 11th / 12th would be best for me.

I also just realized that June 17th is a tough weekend for me to make 
due to prior commitments.

Dave


Markus Neteler wrote:
> On 4/28/06, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> 
>> dear Frank, all,
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> > June 17th is fine for me I believe.  Is there anywhere sort of
central
>> > we can get a free or cheaper meeting site?   A university, etc?
Jo, 
>> did
>> > you have an event in NYC planned in June that we might want to work

>> around?
>>
>> Oh, the venue that we had arranged for the 17th-18th was not working
out,
>> and we agreed to postpone it in favour of working on something
smaller;
>> I'm hoping to get together an open mapping workshop in Boston
instead,
>> to start with; build up some proofs of concept.
>>
>> Where 2.0 seems to be have become a lot more open source/data
friendly;
>> (the prospect of an extended plug in a keynote for OSGeo a big
>> opportunity to make a statement of values) and it now does seem worth
>> attending. I see that it's the Tuesday and Wednesday, so perhaps the
>> weekend before makes more sense, if the prospect is a lot of people
>> trekking out to California.
>>
>> I wonder how a trip of such distance would work out for non-US based
>> participants - Markus, Arnulf, Venkatesh, might you be planning to go
>> anyway, could you manage this?
> 
> 
> Due to traveling I am not available in June before the 15th,
> sorry...
> 
> Markus
> 
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