[Board] Update from Tyler - January

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Yes, I was planning to attend the next meeting.  Was to be this week,  
right?

Tyler

On 3-Feb-09, at 4:06 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> 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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Tyler Mitchell
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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