[OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK AGM Mon 18th Nov 1pm, Committee Membership & GoFundGeo
Nick Bearman
nick at nickbearman.com
Mon Nov 18 04:24:42 PST 2024
Remember the OSGeo:UK AGM is at 1pm UK time today
https://uk.osgeo.org/agm/agm2024.html
Please join us at
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89689342086?pwd=aaOJ7RkXVJN9G5ICmkc1qJU2tF1ebv.1if
you can.
Thanks!
On 22/10/2024 10:10 am, Nick Bearman via UK wrote:
> Hi OSGeo:UK members and anyone interested in OSGeo in the UK,
>
> We can confirm the date for OSGeo:UK's AGM is Mon 18th Nov and we will
> be meeting online at 1pm.
>
> I have included an agenda below, but there are two key items that we
> will be discussing which we want your input for.
>
> Firstly, we want you to be involved in OSGeo:UK. If you are interested
> in being involved in OSGeo:UK in anyway, please come along to the AGM
> and consider standing for the committee.
>
> We have three named roles in the management committee (Chair, Nick
> Bearman; Secretary, Ant Scott; and Treasurer, Matt Travis) and up to
> four other voting members (currently Dave Barter, Alastair Graham, Tom
> Chadwin, Tom Armitage (voting) and Joseph Seddon (non-voting)). As per
> our constitution
> (https://uk.osgeo.org/files/OSGeoUKFinalConstitution_2018_amendments-signed.pdf)
> we are elected annually at the AGM, so if you want to stand for any of
> these roles, please let us know. If required, a vote at the AGM will
> be organised.
>
> Anyone can be a member of OSGeo:UK (by joining our mailing list) and
> come along to our meetings.
>
> Secondly, we want your input for GoFundGeo - to help us to decide who
> to fund this year. Building on our previous two years of GoFundGeo
> (2021-22 and 2022-23), we continue to use surplus funds from FOSS4G:UK
> conferences (and other funds) to support Open Source Geospatial
> software projects that will have an impact in the UK. We have
> approximately £6000 available for sponsorship this year and we will be
> following a broadly similar application process to last year. Full
> details will be circulated shortly, but applications for funding will
> close on Wed 13th Nov, in time for discussion before the AGM on Mon
> 18th Nov. At the AGM we will decide who to fund - so please come along
> and express your opinion.
>
> I have included the full agenda below. Please do come along and join
> us on Mon 18th Nov to help plan the future of OSGeo:UK.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
>
> Agenda:
> - Present / Apologies
> - Minutes from 2023
> - Accounts 2023-2024
> - Election of Officers
> - Discussion around election process
> - We noted last year that we needed to encourage other members to
> put themselves forward for the committee. There are currently no term
> limits for officers or committee members, so previously it has been
> very easy to just keep the same people on the committee unless someone
> actively wants to leave. This year we have more explicitly advertised
> for people to put themselves forward.
> - Moving forward, we can discuss whether we want to adopt a set
> term (e.g. 3 years) after which people stand down and the positions
> are open for election.
> - QGIS Domains - update
> - Communications - update (inc. newsletter)
> - FOSS4G:UK 2024 South West
> - Future events
> - FOSS4G:UK 2025
> - FOSS4G 2026?
> - Funding of Open Source Geo Projects (GoFundGeo)
> - AOB
>
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