[Board] foss4gna board participation and coordination part 2

[Guido Stein]

Hey folks,

is there something I should be doing? I was planning on hanging out at the
booth as much as possible, not sure what my schedule will be.

-Guido

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:37 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/publications.html
>>
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