[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board Meeting Summary (2013-01)

[Jeff McKenna]

Thank you Jachym for this summary.  I want to make sure we send this
summary after each OSGeo Board meeting to the entire community, so
everyone can follow along and comment on the activities.

I want to highlight a couple of these points.

The work being done to establish an OSGeo Labs network at institutions
across the world is really wonderful.  A big pat on the back for the
dedication of the Education committee for championing this, and
specifically the hard work of Suchith, Helena, CharlieS, and AnneG.
You can see a list of the many nodes as well as the steps to add your
own "Open Source Geospatial Education and Research Lab" node here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_current_initiatives

On another topic, we're now approaching what seems to be the busiest
event season ever for our many FOSS4G conferences around the world.  I
hope we can all try to get to one of the events and share our passion.
 Here is a glimpse of some of the events (if you notice I missed
mentioning your regional event please do reply to this email with
details):

    Buenos Aires (april)
    Bucharest (may)
    Minneapolis (may)
    Nottingham (sept)
    Tokyo/Osaka (nov)

With the education momentum, the FOSS4G momentum, and the always
impressive OSGeo-Live distribution, it's an exciting time for the
OSGeo foundation.  These 3 movements are signs of a stable community
and signs that we're entering another important phase in our growth:
training and outreach.  It's due to the hard work of thousands of
OSGeo community members in the last decade that we are now at a point
where we can take a breath and focus on the users of our tools and
make sure their experience is smooth.

Thanks for listening.

-jeff
OSGeo President



On 13-01-18 8:14 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> short summary report from yesterdays IRC board meeting:
> 
> Chair: jmckenna Attending: jachym, FrankW, jmkenna, aghisla,
> mlucas wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-01-17 
> logs: http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2013-01-17.log
> 
> Topics:
> 
> 1) Face-to-Face Board meeting We've agreed, that it will be
> difficult to organize physical face to face meeting of board
> members at current time and that we go on with the virtual one. It
> should happen within next month, the date will be fixed using
> doodle pool (to be prepared).
> 
> 2) Annual Global Meeting It was agreed, that next OSGeo Annual
> Global Meeting will be organized during FOSS4G, Nottingham,
> September. It will be organized together with LOC of FOSS4G.
> 
> 3) Status of FOSS4G-CEE 2013 The organization team in Bucharest is
> reporting, things are moving slowly towards the local conference.
> Should be organized during spring 2013. For the year 2014, still
> FOSS4G-E (for Europe) is the plan.
> 
> 4) MoU with universities There seems to be big movement after last
> announcements. Several universities are asking (Kathmandu,
> Melbourne, Kentucky, Warsaw and Mexico) asked how to establish
> "open source geospatial labs".
> 
> That should be all (in brief summary)
> 
> Jachym
> 
>