Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Yves Jacolin ha scritto: > May be some people of each local chapter should be present at the OSGeo booth > during some time to answer questions? Good idea, I'm available. I submitted a presentation about the last year's activities of GFOSS.it, IT OSGeo local chapter: I wonder if it would be bett

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread Yves Jacolin
Le vendredi 27 juin 2008 19:22, Jason Birch a écrit : > I agree with the concept of lightning-talk style reports, but I think > that it was valuable having the open question/comment section at the end > for general OSGeo organizational discussion. We didn't really have that > available at any other

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread Jason Birch
One thing I noticed from last year's conference was that there was not nearly enough time booked in the venue. Conference centre staff were waiting to clean the room when we were only about 2/3 done. And that was with a social event booked directly after the AGM (which should have caused it to fi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 27-Jun-08, at 7:49 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Plus it's always good to see the actual people on stage talking about what they've done in the last year... that helps putting faces on names. I certainly appreciated this part - sometimes meeting people for the first time face to face as

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread Daniel Morissette
Jacolin Yves wrote: May be it could be interesting to have only one person presenting all Local Chapter. It should save time (when people are changing on stage) and get a good synthesis of all local chapter. All chapters/committees/projects have different agendas and issues and I think th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread Jacolin Yves
Hi, I think this is a great idea even if I was at the other side (on stage) for the presentation of the Francophone Local Chapter. May be it could be interesting to have only one person presenting all Local Chapter. It should save time (when people are changing on stage) and get a good synthes

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Annual General Meeting at FOSS4G

2008-06-27 Thread andrea giacomelli
Hi Tyler - I did not attend the Annual General Meeting last year, and I am not sure if I will be able to attend this year, but I have ideas in this respect and I hope they will still reach the mailing list ;) With the growth of the community (and of the number of chapters) such a session will gro