Re: F2F meetings 2018

+1 for option1

Ed


On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 at 09:36 Bill Roberts <bill@swirrl.com> wrote:

> I think option (1) looks better, partly because I think it would be good
> to have the first meeting soon - Geonovum in Amersfoort sounds ideal to me.
> And fair/preferable that it's not all in Europe, though having said that
> I'm not sure I'd be able to go to the Fort Collins meeting.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bill
>
> On 13 December 2017 at 14:33, Linda van den Brink <
> l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl> wrote:
>
>> Dear IG members,
>>
>> Before we all go off on holiday, let's do some planning for the next
>> year. In 2018, we want to have at least two face to face meetings. The
>> charter tells us to have at least one at an OGC meeting and one at a W3C
>> meeting.
>>
>> Jeremy, Scott, Francois and I have come up with two options:
>>
>> 1)
>> - One f2f in jan/feb, location tbd (I could host again at Geonovum, other
>> offers welcome)
>> - One at OGC TC 4-8 June at Fort Collins, Colorado
>> - One at TPAC in Lyon in October.
>> The advantage of this scenario is that not all f2f meetings are in Europe
>> in this option. We add a meeting in Jan/Feb because otherwise we have to
>> wait until June for our first f2f, which may slow our momentum.
>>
>> 2)
>> - One at OGC TC in 19-23 March in Orleans
>> - One at TPAC in Lyon in October
>> The advantage is that we only have to travel two times for f2f meetings,
>> and they're nicely distributed over the year. However, both are in Europe.
>>
>> Please let us know what you think about the timing and locations, and
>> what the likelyhood is of your attendance!
>>
>> Linda
>>
>>
> --


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