[Board] Potential location for AGM/Sol Katz etc

[Suchith Anand]

Dear all,
 
It is very sad to see FOSS4G 2012 cancelled. Thanks Jo for suggesting OSGIS for potential venue for OSGeo AGM, Directors F2F etc. We will strongly support this suggestion. It will help send strong message that FOSS4G is strong and next year's FOSS4G  event is on track. It will be also good opportunity for Board members and other key OSGeo people to have F2F meeting and fieldvisit for FOSS4G 2013. 

We are determined to ensure the success of FOSS4G and will do everything we can for this.

Suchith

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From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette [dmorissette at mapgears.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Board] Potential location for AGM/Sol Katz etc

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/ ... 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/

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
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jo
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