[Board] OSGeo board, F2F Meeting in India

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Markus,

(yes lots of ideas floating around ha)

I like your idea also.  Can we safely assume each of us has a web camera 
to use?  I think so?  But I agree, if we set aside maybe a half day for 
a video conference, once every 6 months possibly, this would really help 
us all be connected and feel responsible for our roles as board members.

Also, dare I say it (yet again), maybe we could find some OSGeo funds to 
purchase a professional web conferencing system, so we can smoothly 
communicate during these bi-annual 'meetings' ?

-jeff



Markus Neteler wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> just to throw in another idea: "distributed meeting".
> 
> I.e. to meet in parallel continent-wise to reduce travel distances to
> a minimum, to get directors together in chunks, and to connect
> the group via electronic communication media.
> 
> Concretely (modifications according to travel schedule):
> 
> * Section Europe:
>     * Arnulf Christl
>     * Ari Jolma
>     * Markus Neteler
> 
> * Section India:
>     * Ravi Kumar (perhaps Ravi coming to Europe for this?)
> 
> * Section Northern America
>     * Howard Butler
>     * Frank Warmerdam
>     * Chris Schmidt
>     * Geoff Zeiss
>     * Jeff McKenna
> 
> We would get enough overlap to have hours of joint video
> conferencing and leave the ours out-of-sync for local
> discussions. Would also reduce our CO2 impact.
> 
> Why? It would definitely be more productive for me to be in
> a dedicated place with some other directors than doing
> skype conf'ing from my office or being surrounded by my kids :)
> 
> YAI (yet another idea),
> Markus
>