[Board] Potential location for AGM/Sol Katz etc

[Jo Cook]

Hi Daniel,

I quite understand what you're saying about pointing people to Nottingham
two years in a row- I hesitated before asking. If it makes sense, we can
have it as a backup in case no other options come along.

Jo

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Morissette <
dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:

> Hi Jo,
>
> After seeing the note from the Beijing FOSS4G 2012 list I have been
> wondering the same thing: What are our alternatives for the OSGeo Annual
> General Meeting (AGM), Sol Katz, benchmarking, etc?
>
> Nottingham/OSGIS is one option (sounds like the obvious one), thank you
> for suggesting it. However if we go that route then we'd be pointing people
> there two years in a row. Maybe not that big a deal, but before settling on
> that option I'd like to see what our other options are... and if we have
> any practical way to make the AGM and Sol Katz happen in Asia even if that
> means having less participants for this year.
>
> Another option that was mentioned in the Beijing email is The Asian
> Geospatial Forum, September 2012, Hanoi, Vietnam, which will have an OSGeo
> session. http://www.**asiageospatialforum.org/<http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/>... I have no idea whether they would be interested in hosting our AGM and
> Sol Katz events, and whether it has enough OSGeo taste and contents to
> attract enough people from the OSGeo core to make it a viable alternative.
>
> There is also the Japanese chapter that usually has a conference in the
> fall. I don't follow them closely, but if I read the site right then it
> would have happened already ... last week...
> https://sites.google.com/site/**foss4ghokkaido/<https://sites.google.com/site/foss4ghokkaido/>
>
> Are there other options that I didn't think of?
>
> I'd suggest we take the next two days to discuss options on this list and
> then settle on something at the board meeting on Thursday.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 12-07-10 6:14 AM, Jo Cook wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Given the announcement about FOSS4G 2012, I was wondering if you all
>> felt that OSGIS in Nottingham would be a good venue for the AGM, Sol
>> Katz etc. It's 4th-5th of September, at almost the same venue as FOSS4G
>> will be next year (same campus but not same venue)- and we (the LOC)
>> were already planning to invite board members along to view the venue
>> and meet the committee.
>>
>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/**osgis/home.aspx<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Jo
>>
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