[Board] foss4gna board participation and coordination part 2

[Jody Garnett]

Actually I am not sure, because we are listed as gold sponsors on the
website I figured it included registrations to go with the booth. But since
I was just surprised about booth ...

Reference: https://2018.foss4g-na.org/prospectus
--
Jody Garnett


On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 at 19:00, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> This is to confirm that I have the airtickets and hotel booked, arriving
> Sunday May 13 evening and leaving Wednesday May 16 morning (I need to be
> back for a workshop in the afternoon).
>
> I am not sure about the registration - I assume I will need one.
> I am looking forward to meeting everyone who can come there and get all
> the updates on the North America chapter,
>
> best regards,
>
> Helena
>
> P.S. For those who know them, Anna has successfully defended PhD March 12
> and Vashek this Monday April 23 and for now they are staying as postdocs at
> NCSU.
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tuesday while Helena is still in town, all our stuff happens
> Monday-Tuesday.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 at 13:16, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Michael Smith – travel and accommodations booked. Govt travel approved.
>> Workshop on Thursday afternoon.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ll be at the members meeting.
>>
>>
>>
>> What day is the Sponsors/Partners meeting?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 4:12 PM
>> *To: *Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>, Helena Mitasova <
>> hmitaso at ncsu.edu>, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Subject: *foss4gna board participation and coordination part 2
>>
>>
>>
>> Okay we have three weeks to go, some updates and coordination are needed.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1) osgeo attendance / board member presence
>>
>>
>>
>> Board members:
>>
>> - Helena Mitasova - confirmed! believe travel and accommodation are
>> booked
>>
>> - Jeff McKenna - not confirmed
>>
>> - Michael Smith - confirmed
>>
>> - Jody Garnett - confirmed, travel booked
>>
>>
>>
>> Members at large:
>>
>> - New osgeo・us chapter members should be present, would be good to
>> coordinate
>>
>>
>>
>> *While we have booth materials (banners,hand outs) present in st-louis,
>> the exhibitor area has sold out.  Currently looking at having out banners
>> scattered around at the event as hosts.*
>>
>>
>>
>> 2) Schedule a member meeting at foss4gna
>>
>>
>>
>> Timeslot established, we can borrow the un-meeting format from
>> code-sprint.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://2018.foss4g-na.org/bof-session/osgeo-members-meeting
>>
>>
>>
>> Promotion of this activity will be needed.
>>
>>
>>
>> 3) Schedule a Sponsors/Partners meeting
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently we have a time slot (7:30-9:00 Breakfast meeting), and a
>> reservation.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have sent a lit of sponsors and partners in North America to the
>> board-priv list, we will need to send out email invites and see who can
>> join us.
>>
>>
>>
>> Reservation asks us to respond with final headcount ...  for COB
>> tomorrow. Given that we have not started inviting anyone I think we should
>> aim for 15-20 people.
>>
>>
>>
>> 4) Travel Grant Program
>>
>>
>>
>> While the conference committee has now gotten back to us, the time is too
>> short to arrange anything for the event. While this is a disappointing
>> result (especially given diversity goals) I hope the coordination can be
>> improved on for other regional events such as foss4g-eu and foss4g-asia.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>
> Helena Mitasova
> Professor at the Department of Marine,
> Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
> Associate director and faculty fellow at the Center for Geospatial
> Analytics
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
> hmitaso at ncsu.edu
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>
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