[OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK AGM Mon 18th Nov 1pm, Committee Membership & GoFundGeo

[Nick Bearman]

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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