[Oceania-Board] Document Prettification

[Adam Steer]

Just reading the board meeting minutes [1] in the context of annual
report decoration - cc'ing this response to the board list with
contract details removed.

Perhaps report organisation is a job for the O&CWG? I empathise a lot
with Dionne and Hamish and Celina - vast energy was spent building the
O&CWG and it is not used - at worst sometimes actively sidelined or
weirdly excluded/dismissed ( eg [2] - a perfect opportunity to respond
with 'yes lets get WGs looking at things which will help' ). So I am
completely unsurprised that the WG feels directionless. I think the
way forward is to simply use the O&WG to do the things it is nominally
tasked to do.

Board meetings are held in the middle of the night in GMT+1 (this week
was 02:00-03:00), we all knew it was going to be near impossible for
me to show up in person to meetings months ago. So, overdue
resignation incoming.

Great to read that the 2020 hybrid conference was well attended and
has given some fertile ground for future ideas!

Cheers,

Adam

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VldLytdGMNqbIvqKNxSjyejSkW-xCkRbR7nW4_7WP4
[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/private/oceania-board-private/2020-July/000453.html

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"Move purposeful, and fix things"

--Alyssa Wright, FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018 keynote


On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 07:20, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks
>
> As discussed at the Board meeting today, here’s a quote for making the annual report look pretty.
>
> Lauren usually delivers in less time than she quotes.
>
> So, any objections to my proceeding with working with Lauren to get us a shiny annual report?
>
> Cheers,