[OSGeo-UK] MINUTES - OSGeo:UK - January 2014

[Edwards, Ian]

MINUTES

OSGeo:UK January 2014
  2014-01-27
  13:00-14:00

Present
(AP) Abi Page -  Central Scotland Forest Trust and Council member for AGI
(AS) Ant Scott - Sustain
(BR) Barry Rowlingson - Lancaster University Medical School
(IE) Ian Edwards - Met Office
(MW) Matt Walker - Astun Technology
(SR) Saber Razmjooei - Lutra Consulting

Items

#1. Summary of UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest (Dec 2013)

  Information
    2013-12-09 Members of OSGeo UK attended sprint 1 of the UK Interoperability Assessment Plugfest
      http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2013/12/sprint-1-of-the-uk-interoperability-assessment-plugfest/
      Wide adoption of QGIS was noted at the event
    QGIS 2.2 feature freeze was last Friday 2014-01-24

  Actions
    [14-1] Email Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham, for his thoughts on restarting the OGC UK & Ireland forum
    [14-2] Raise a QGIS feature request for improving the interface for adding WMTS layers http://hub.qgis.org/issues/

#2. Early plans for OSGIS 2014

  Actions
    [14-3] Confirm dates and room bookings for OSGIS 2014 with Suchith Anand, University of Nottingham
    [14-4] Set up a Base Camp project for the conference for OSGeo UK to assist with organising
    [14-5] Contact Jeremy Morley to determine OSGeo:UK's level of engagement
    [14-5] Start OSGeo Wiki page for OSGIS 2014 and document alternatives to basecamp for open discussion (e.g. mailing list, github, OpenAtrium, ...)
    [14-6] Create OSGeo UK github organisation
   [14-7] Communicate with AGI about their Open Geospatial event in May (and other events in 2014)

#3. New process for sponsoring events and activities

  Actions
    [14-8] Contact OSGeo:Swiss group for an example of their processes for guide sponsoring activities - share on OSGeo wiki and OSGeo:UK mailing list

#4. Support for google handouts

Decisions
  Motion: Replace IRC with audio meetings and good minute taking [FAILED]
  -1 BR,  0 IE, -1 MW, -1 SR,  0 AS, -1 AP

#5. AOB

Information
  Deferred discussions about Twitter and social media for another day

#6. Next meeting date

  Decisions
    Motion: February Monthly meeting on IRC - Monday 24th February 2014 - 13:00-14:00 [PASSED]
   +1 IE, +1 SR, +1 MW, +1 BR

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