[Board] Heads-up: plans for OGC/OSGeo Board meetup

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Ian,

You are encouraged to join, thanks, it will be great to have you there.
 I can even see you leading some of this discussion, as I can tell that
you have passion for the OGC relationship. Please come along.

Also Arnulf, can you make it to this on Wednesday night?

-jeff



On 2013-09-10 9:58 AM, Ian Edwards wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Assuming I can solicit an invitation... I would like to join you at the
> joint OSGeo/OGC dinner (paying my own way of course).
> 
> The conference falls at an ideal time to reflect on OGC's Ideas4OGC
> process[1], and I have a strong feeling that there are opportunities to
> build on our 2008 MoU to the benefit of both communities.
> 
> We have a place holder for a BoF session early on Friday 20th to get
> more open discussion and feedback[2], but one of the outcomes from
> Wednesday evening may be that we would like to make use of other
> opportunities during the FOSS4G week.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Ian
> 
> Ian Edwards,
> OSGeo UK
> 
> [1] http://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/Ideas4OGC/LeaderShip
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#OGC.2FOSGeo_meet_up
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Jeremy, Board,
> 
>     Oh ok, I didn't know that you are not on the Board list.
> 
>     I myself don't have a ticket for the ice breaker, so I am confirmed.
>     Including Daniel and Frank (emailed me directly), we'll likely have
>     between 4 and 8 OSGeo Board members there.  I also want to include
>     Arnulf, who has been a constant driving force between uniting OGC-OSGeo.
>     (Jachym, I'm not forgetting your potential inclusion either)
> 
>     I would say to reserve a table for 20 (12 OGC Board members, plus
>     roughly 8 OSGeo reps).
> 
>     I would then estimate a cost of roughly 35pounds each (inc a drink, and
>     tip), which would mean approx 1100 USD (or 550 USD each for OSGeo and
>     the OGC).
> 
>     If the Board is interested, I would make a motion to approve the use of
>     $550 maximum for an OGC-OSGeo meetup.
> 
>     General reaction by the Board?
> 
>     As Daniel pointed out, there is already an OGC-OSGeo meetup planned for
>     Friday morning (I was already confirmed for attending that):
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#OGC.2FOSGeo_meet_up
>      It could be that the OSGeo Board decides as a group to attend that, and
>     not set aside funding for a separate meetup.
> 
>     Speak up as Jeremy needs our thoughts now.
> 
>     -jeff
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2013-09-03 8:21 PM, Jeremy Morley wrote:
>     >
>     > Jeff,
>     >
>     > Note that I'm not on the board mailing list so it may be only you
>     who saw
>     > the original email - it may be useful to be able to post to the
>     list for
>     > this conversation, otherwise please relay my messages.
>     >
>     >
>     > Anyway, yes, the current plan is that there's this relatively formal
>     > get-together with the OGC board (12 of them, I think) at 7pm on the
>     > Wednesday (18th) as a dinner in the hotel restaurant. The cost is
>     £24/head
>     > for the three course meal, drinks additional, but including VAT
>     (our sales
>     > tax).
>     >
>     > There is the FOSS4G ice breaker at the same time - I don't know
>     (meaning I
>     > don't know, rather than "I don't think it is") if this is the sort
>     of the
>     > thing the OGC Board would want to attend. The OGC guys aren't
>     registered
>     > at the conference generally (their meeting is separate on the
>     Thursday)
>     > and so they'd have to buy ice breaker tickets (as would you guys).
>     There
>     > was also some suggestion of a half-way house of a drinks reception
>     for the
>     > two (or three including AGI) groups.
>     >
>     > In the end I'm pretty neutral about this. It seems to me that for
>     a formal
>     > "meeting of minds" such as this it does really need to be done in
>     a more
>     > private space than the ice breaker to allow discussion to properly
>     happen.
>     > The aim isn't just to party together is it? This seems to be the
>     sort of
>     > thing that board members of organisations are there for, for
>     diplomatic
>     > talks with other organisations. It may therefore be something that
>     one or
>     > both organisations or else their representative members have to
>     stump up
>     > for - we may be able to find a cheaper menu if that's the problem.
>     >
>     > Still, that's just my view.  The bottom line is that the EMCC event
>     > manager and I are running through all the bookings to confirm
>     orders on
>     > Monday morning (British Summer Time) and I'll need to know by then
>     what
>     > the confirmed plan is. At present I will stick with the meal plan
>     unless
>     > told explicitly not to go ahead. I also need to have a reasonably good
>     > handle on the numbers attending too, please.
>     >
>     >
>     > With regards, thanks, and some trepidation at the nearness of it all,
>     > Jeremy
>     >
>     >