[Board] OSGeo board, F2F Meeting in India

[Ravi]

+1 Markus

So those in europe ,can meet at OSGIS, Nottingham ? 

This summer (May / June )will be visiting daughter in London

Ravi Kumar
--- On Sat, 6/2/10, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Subject: Re: [Board] OSGeo board, F2F Meeting in India
> To: "OSGeo-Board" <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Saturday, 6 February, 2010, 8:03 AM
> 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
> > 
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