[Board] FOSS4G 2010 Board Meeting

[Jeff McKenna]

Chris thanks for bringing this up.  I feel strongly that we need a full 
day for this meeting in Barcelona.  At last year's Sydney event we only 
did an informal dinner, but on a separate day most of the Board members 
ended up meeting with Lorenzo in a conference room and helped his 
committee deal with the conference company contract (there will be 
similar needs this year for 2011 I imagine).  So, I could easily see us 
filling up a day in Barcelona.

I recommend having this meeting the day after the event finishes; for 
example, after the Sydney event finished a few of the board members met 
for an extended breakfast (Arnulf, Tyler, Jeroen, myself) and honestly 
we had great discussions, as we were able to relax and discuss freely (I 
am incoherent before these events, with too much to prepare, to really 
relax and open up freely in a discussion).  So to me we must have this 
meeting after the dust settles.

I also feel that we should make attendance mandatory for this meeting, 
and start planning accordingly.

-jeff


christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe that there is a general intention of the board to have a
> board-wide F2F meeting of OSGeo at FOSS4G 2010. We should probably
> plan this event with the FOSS4G event coordinators. (I know that I'm
> personally looking to get travel plans situated as soon as possible,
> to hopefully save on some costs and ensure I don't get caught out by
> corporate travel requirements.) Before the next board meeting, I would
> be interested in discussing plans for this, and ensuring that we have
> support from the LOC as to planned facility, so that we can pick an
> ideal time (before, after, or during the conference being the three
> options, depending on the amount of time we expect to spend).
> 
> If someone who is in contact with the FOSS4G 2010 organizing committee
> could get that ball rolling -- or let me know that I'm off base and
> this has already been discussed -- that would be great.
> 
> At one point, the board discussed the possibility of requiring board
> members to attend FOSS4G 2010. If this is the case, we should also
> establish how we intend to compensate board members/what criteria we
> plan to use. I assume that at least some board members won't have
> external support to attend the conference, and it seems fair to
> support them via OSGeo in some way. It is likely some email discussion
> before the meeting could establish some guidelines we could discuss
> and vote on.
> 
> Regards,