[Board] Re: F2F meeting

[Ravi]

F2F meeting 
Costs: May not be for all but for some like me, even attending FOSS4G Sydney would have cost the equivalent of arranging a (free) 3-day workshop for 30 interested students/GIS teachers along with hospitality expenses and travel for resource-persons. The philosophy of OSGeo translating into priorities will make a local chapter spend their meager resources in organising awareness.

Ravi Kumar



--- On Fri, 6/11/09, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:

> From: Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) <arnulf at osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Board] Re: F2F meeting 
> To: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Friday, 6 November, 2009, 8:11 PM
> Howard,
> thanks for making a clear statement to a constraint that we
> have. But I am
> inclined to say that we should then remove that constraint
> instead of not
> meeting. I also want to have my expenses paid for and I
> think this is
> something that OSGeo must be able to do in the future if it
> wants to
> continue to prosper and grow. Otherwise we can make it a
> requirement that
> future Directors must be capable and willing to afford a
> meeting on their
> own expense.
> 
> I have started several attempts at getting together at
> least a list of
> potential sponsors and to then nudge some board members
> into actually
> contacting them and to report of their success but so far
> to no avail.
> 
> Does anybody have a better suggestion at how to solve this
> problem? My
> guess is that nothing much will happen if we just sit
> around and wait.
> Another example: "Somebody" ought to get into contact with
> Autodesk and
> make sure that they stay at the 50k level. They would be
> paying 150k every
> year for their CollabNet environment if we would not have
> prepared a cosy
> nest for them. Or did I miss something along the way? Its
> just a deal and
> someone will have to dicker.
> 
> It's just that I am not going to do it all on my own
> because I simply
> cannot, I am as busy as most of us. And probably I am not
> even very good
> at it (too blunt, impatient, etc... :-)
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
> 
> 
> On Fri, November 6, 2009 13:51, Howard Butler wrote:
> >
> 
> > On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I really mean to get all of us meet in one place
> >> for two days.
> >
> > I don't see how this is remotely possible given our
> budgetary
> > constraints.  There's no way I can afford footing
> a F2F board meeting out
> > of pocket right now, and OSGeo has never been in a
> position of being able
> > to support board member's travel to F2F meetings.
> >
> > We should see if we can procure reliable low-cost
> tele/video
> > conferencing before putting the squeeze on members to
> spend a day of travel
> > on each side of a two day F2F.  Our meeting
> situation (IRC + free skype)
> > is awful.
> >
> > Howard
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Arnulf Christl
> President OSGeo
> http://www.osgeo.org
> 
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