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

[Nick Bearman]

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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