[Board] Re: F2F meeting

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

> 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

Ravi,
I can follow you for the first part. I do not understand "The philosophy
of OSGeo translating into priorities will make a local chapter spend their
meager resources in organising awareness." though. Can you please explain?

Best regards,

> --- 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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