Hey Alex, all Could procedural stuff (treasurers report, acceptance of reports) be dealt with outside of the meeting (eg circulated to members some time ahead, approved or not, and presented)? it doesn't make sense to wait till the AGM to present reports, in case debate ensues and consumes all the time.
Then procedural reporting could be a lot shorter, and the election of directors / questions to directors longer, and also in one time block together. ...and what about having everyone just join a meeting? I think that it would be great for the highly distributed Oceania community to all have the option of seeing each other. Last point - there was barely any time for directors to provide input [1]. I think it is important to allow volunteer directors more than two days to digest a proposal and respond. Cheers, Adam [1] thread: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oceania-board/2020-November/000048.html On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 04:45, Alex Leith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear OSGeo Oceania Members > > > I’m writing to invite you to the 2020 Annual General Meeting. > > > The AGM will be held at midday, AEDT, on the 11th of December and you can > register to attend here: > https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_34NW-ez3StK0KNDD5surLg > > > We’re going to run the meeting as a Zoom Webinar, and Board members will be > ‘presenters’ and members ‘participants’ but we can enable video for those who > would like to ask questions verbally. You can also participate using the Q&A > functionality. > > > The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: > > 12:00 - Welcome and introductions > > 12:05 - Apologies > > 12:10 - Chair’s report > > 12:15 - Treasurer’s report > > 12:20 - Questions to Directors > > 12:25 - Acceptance of financial statements > > 12:30 - Acceptance of annual report > > 12:35 - Election of Directors > > 13:00 - Meeting close. > > > Kind regards, > > > Alex Leith > > Chair, OSGeo Oceania > > > > -- > Alex Leith > m: 0419189050 > _______________________________________________ > Oceania-Board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania-board _______________________________________________ Oceania mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania
