[OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK AGM and Constitution Change

[James Milner]

Hey all,

I would like to put myself forward as a committee member. I have been involved in OSGeo activities for several years, being chair along with Tom Chadwin in 2018 for FOSS4G UK and having been an active speaker at many FOSS4G events previously, including the international and EU editions. The open source geospatial community has always been very welcoming and supportive to me and I would be interested in giving back to the UK community and beyond. I'm currently working on the open source project Terra Draw which is a library for drawing on web maps. The library is currently an OSGeo community project and a selected project for the OSGeo UK 2024 Code Sprint in Dorset. Here is my OSGeo member page which gives a little more detail on my background: https://www.osgeo.org/member/milner/.

A couple of ideas I had were firstly looking at expanding the membership of OSGeo UK to attempt to appeal to people who perhaps work regularly with open source geospatial software but who may be unaware of the organisation or its goals. The second related idea would be trying to potentially build relationships with other UK organisations who are supportive of FOSS such as the British Computer Society (who have an open source working group) and OpenUK (a not-for-profit company which helps promote the use of open source in the UK). I think both of these ambitions could help bring in fresh ideas, opportunities and support for the organisation.

Many thanks,

James Milner

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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-UK] OSGeo:UK AGM and Constitution Change

Hi all

Just a reminder that the OSGeo:UK AGM will be held on Wednesday 1st October at 4:15pm at FOSS4G:UK in Leeds. The agenda is here - please let me know at least 24 hours before the meeting if you want to add any items to it.
https://uk.osgeo.org/agm/agm2025.html

As you will see from the agenda, we have two vacancies on the committee, and one for Treasurer. If you would like to put yourself forward for any of these posts, please send a message to this list at least 24 hours before the AGM.

many thanks

Ant Scott
Secretary, OSGeo:UK




On Wed, 10 Sept 2025 at 18:41, Antony Scott <antony.scott at gmail.com<mailto:antony.scott at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

This is to let you know that the OSGeo:UK AGM will be held at 16:15 on 1st October 2025 at the Horizon Conference Centre Leeds, during FOSS4G:UK 2025. We will attempt to give members access online for those who can't make it in person. Details of this and the agenda will follow.

We are proposing some significant changes to the OSGeo:UK constitution - all the details are in this document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oORySXTnMFfVeHPoT1lBQzBBb7PNwQ_j/view?usp=drivesdk - please have a look.

We will have a vacancy for the post of Treasurer, as Matt Travis is standing down - thanks to Matt for all the work he has put in over the years. We'll also have vacancies for two committee members (subject to the constitution changes). To put your name forward for any of these posts, please send an email to this list with brief details of what you could offer OSGeo:UK - and feel free to contact any committee member for more details.

Finally, a reminder that registration for FOSS4G:UK is still open - details here: https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025/registration/.

All the best

Ant Scott
Secretary, OSGeo:UK

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