[Board] Update from Tyler - January

[Arnulf Christl]

Tyler,
thanks for your update, this is developing into a good habit. Can you
attend the next board meeting (I will invite separately). I guess we could
discuss the AGM as it seems to have more potential than what we made out
of it last year.

best regards,
Arnulf

On Mon, February 2, 2009 21:00, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hi all,
> Here are some of the things I've had on the radar this past month.
> Many are ongoing as well.
>
>
> Education: Worked with educational committee to tweak and start using
> a training material catalogue.  http://osgeo.org/educational_content
>
> Conference:
> - General: Answered some general questions for those interested in
> holding future events and branding them as OSGeo.  Posting news releases. -
> FOSS4G: Upgrade conference system, lending a hand to '09 web site
> team for committing site changes.
>
> Journal:  Loading back issues into online system, updating links on
> sites.  Trying to line up peer review process, but it has totally stalled.
>
> Summer of Code:  Worked with Wolf to send thank you gifts to
> mentors.  I submitted some of my ideas for SoC 2009 and do a bit of
> research.  Last year Google gave us $10,000 for mentors, etc.
>
> Local Chapters:
> - California: Alex and Landon working on formalising the chapter.
> Lost of questions about next steps.  They are increasingly interested
> in raising local sponsors to help fund OSGeo presence at events. Some
> questions about handling finances, etc. - Francophone: Dealing directly
> with our sponsor IGN to help answer questions and find solutions.
> Discussed with Yves about how they
> might get their code back into OSGeo projects and what kind of language
> barriers exist.
>
> Finance: Updated and reviewed 2008 financial records.  OSGeo
> officially registered in British Columbia now - at request of our local
> bank.  Sent a QGIS contractor payment and created a status report.
> Stalled insurance application finally restarted due to staff
> turnover at insurance company.
>
> Web: Some layout changes and also a bunch of testing of various
> website tools.  Helping compile comments and ideas re: future web site
> changes from a marketing perspective.  Prototyping a symbol management
> tool in CMS.
>
> Marketing: Material development (brochures, etc) plan started.  Was
> recently interviewed for a Japanese software developer magazine - to be
> posted in a couple months.
>
> That's all for now, drop me a note on anything in particular you
> might like to hear more about at our next meeting.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tyler
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Arnulf Christl
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