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

[Nick Bearman]

Thanks to everyone who attended the AGM on Monday.

A particular welcome to Catherine Clissold-Jones and Jonny Huck, who are 
joining the committee.

I would also like to let you know that GoFundGeo awarded £5003 across 6 
projects to:

pgRouting Gold Sponsorship Level, $1200/£963 per year
QGIS Sustaining Membership small level, €1,000/£840 per year
qgis2web: £1,000
GeoServer: £1,000
Terra Draw: £1,000
GISRUK & OSGeo:UK GoFundGeo Award, £200

We also discussed future plans for organizing a FOSS4G Europe or FOSS4G 
Global, potentially in 2026 or 2027, as well as a National FOSS4G:UK 
next year (2025). Watch this email list for details! (and volunteer to 
help out if you want this to happen - see Al's email 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/uk/2024-November/001300.html).

The minutes are available online now at 
https://uk.osgeo.org/agm/agm2024minutes.html.

Best wishes,
Nick.

On 18/11/2024 12:24, Nick Bearman via UK wrote:
>
> 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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