Member Meeting FOSS4GNA 2018

This member meeting is scheduled for 14 May 2018 as part of the FOSS4G-NA conference. A [bird-of-a-feather session has been reserved for Monday evening before the social ice-breaker event.
== Time / Location ==
* http://foss4g-na.org
* Monday 2018-05-14 18:00 bird-of-feather, AV equipment will be available but is not the focus of the space
Questions:
* Jody Garnett
== Agenda for FOSS4G NA Member Meeting ==
We would like to have a discussion on OSGeo topics for an hour. Afterwards we would like to invite you to the icebreaker event for a drink and continue the discussion socially.
# Welcome to OSGeo in 2018
# Diversity in our Community
# Challenges to OSGeo success in North America
# (Please add ideas to this list)
Our president is running this meeting, format may be subject to change depending on numbers attending.
== About the idea of OSGeo Member Meetings ==
The OSGeo board would like to invite you to participate in one of the "Member Meetings" being scheduled 2018:
* OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 in Bonn (Member Meeting 19. March 2018)
* FOSS4G North America
* FOSS4G Europe
* FOSS4G Dar es Salaam
* FOSS4G Asia
We would love a chance to talk with you and hope you can attend one of the above events. This is a great possibility to come together with the charter members, to discuss and to get to know each other.
At FOSS4G Europe 2017 we had a wonderful board meeting, that many members were able to attend, resulting in a great discussion. We would like to build on this experience for 2018 and invite you to a member meeting at an event near you.
=== Un-meeting Topics ===
We would like to have a discussion on OSGeo topics for about an hours. Afterwards we would like to invite you for a drink and continue the discussion socially.
Topics set by those present, ideas to consider:
* Can I have a sticker
* What is going on?
* Ways to get involved?
* What is the difference between charter members and members?
* What is expected for charter members?
* Members vs members vs members?
* Committee Health and Happiness
* What OSGeo stack do you use?
* What non OSGeo stack do you use?
* Set up new local chapter?
* OSGeo.US Update? How did it go today ...
* Difference between OSGeo and OGC?
* (Please add ideas to this list)
Our vice-president Helena is running this meeting, format may be subject to change depending on numbers attending.
Update: Following bonn member meeting example the "un-meeting" format is setup with post-it notes on a whiteboard, questions and answer format (with volunteers stepping up to answer questions).
==== Discussion ====
Initial chat OSGeo discussion is back and forth:
* member driven?
* opportunities arise (example from partner collaboration)
==== What is going on ====
We have more then we are able to communicate:
* discuss is being a bit quiet, board list is being quiet, but geoforall is overwhelming
* Two projects have graduated (prywps and osgeolive) but no news items yet :(
* gdalbarn.com - being announced this week
==== What is expected for charter members? ====
The only expectation is voting!
* CRO can no longer maintain the list, going to have to ask charter members to create a profile on the website!
Discussion:
* We are losing people moving from wiki to website
* We should contact charter members and ask them to update the entry!
Update:
* SAC is migrating from Wiki to LDAP, and may automate some stuff
==== OSGeo Local Chapter Update ====
* Set up new local chapter?
* OSGeo.US Update? How did it go today ...
Update:
* Guido is making use of not-for-profit
* wiki page!
* meet with IRC with board, did not have enough members :)
* email list setup!
* https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoUS
Ideas from todays meeting:
* Consider taking leading role in FOSS4GNA in 2019?
* Push more US, perhaps attend state governments?
* Need for US government to engage with someone?
Randy's initial experiments show a real pent up demand.
==== Is anything happening at AGU I have a presentation? ====
Ideas:
* Helena would like to have a booth, find out who is going!
* Perhaps we could do an open source session at the AGU meeting?
==== Can I have a sticker ====
Yes they are on the table
==== What is the difference between charter members and members? ====
* Participant: Taking part in our community, example email list communication. Around 30k unique subscribers.
* Member: Self proclaim on wiki or OSGeo :) 
* Charter Member: voting member who added each year as part of a nomination process
==== Members vs members vs members? ====
We do not have a definitive count of members:
* Wiki says 1200+
* Website says 370+
See https://www.osgeo.org/about/membership-rules/
=== Difference between OSGeo and OGC? ===
* OGC: Focused on standards, interoperability between applications, preservation of data
* OSGeo software foundation, providing a hope for projects. Community focus on open geospatial (open source, open data, open standards, open education, open world :) )
==== Committee Health and Happiness ====
Some committees are kind of inactive, open geodata.
==== What happened to MetaCRS ====
It became an initiative - to facilitate communication between reprojection libraries, and iron out any interoperability issues.
==== Difference between community and project ====
OSGeo_Community_Projects
=== Actions ===
=== Motions ===
Category:Board
Category:Board Meetings 2018