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

[Matt Walker]

I'm more than happy to second James for a role on the committee.

Matt Walker
https://www.osgeo.org/member/matt-walker/
https://mastodon.social/@walkermatt

On Sat, 27 Sept 2025, 11:00 James Milner via UK, <uk at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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> *From:* UK <uk-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Antony Scott via UK <
> uk at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Sent:* 24 September 2025 18:13
> *To:* OSGeo UK <uk at lists.osgeo.org>
> *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>
> 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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