Re: draft programme and actions from Tuesday's meeting

[grahamoakes]

		  Hi,

I've connected with the BCS Oxfordshire branch and tentatively started to plan for the Oxfam Case Study to happen as part of a joint meeting in late Nov, as per email thread below.  (It coincides with another open source meeting they had planned for Nov: alternative might be to push our meeting back to April, but for now I'm trying to work within our originally agreed agenda.)

I still need to confirm exact date and title with Romilly.

How do we handle financial discussions with the Oxbordshire branch?

Cheers,
Graham


> Hi Adrian,
>
> w/b 14th or 21st Nov would seem fine to me.  I'll check with Romilly Gregory, our
> speaker, as to which of 16th, 23rd or 24th Nov might work for best her.

> I'll also raise the question about financial arrangements with the OSSG committee.  
> Do you have any feel for roughly what sort of costs are likely to be involved?

> Looking forwards to working with you.

> Cheers,
> Graham
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Walmsley> Sent: 28 June 2005 09:19
> To: graham@grahamoakes.co.uk
> Cc: Bcsoxon Committee
> Subject: Re: joint meeting OSSG and Oxfordshire Branch
> 
> Graham
> Many thanks for your note.
> Speaking for myself, I'd be delighted if we could arrange a joint 
> meeting between the Oxford branch and the new OSSG.
> 
> As you say, we have local knowledge and a process for booking a room 
> and pre-meeting coffee and biscuits.
> 
> We already have a full programme mapped out for the 2005/6 academic 
> year, although not all the speakers are confirmed. I've attached the 
> draft programme as a PDF since the web page is protected.
> 
> Subject to our committee's agreement we could slot your meeting in as 
> a second event for November, where, as you will see, we already have 
> an Open Source speaker pencilled in for November 10th.
> 
> 
> Our Christmas lecture is on December 1st so if you were going for 
> November as a joint meeting you'd need to look at w/b Nov 14 or Nov 
> 21. I would have a clash on Nov 17th.
> 
> And we'd need to talk about the financial arrangements.
> 
> As well as email and web, we circulate our programme as a printed card 
> to branch members every year. This goes out in the second half of 
> August, so we'd like to get the details of our joint meeting fixed by then.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adrian Walmsley
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> 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: graham@grahamoakes.co.uk> >>Sent: 24 June 2005 11:22
> >>To: graham@grahamoakes.co.uk; brian.day@bcs.org.uk; 
> >>adrian@walmsley.org.uk; robert.ward@bcs.org.uk
> >>Subject:topic
> >>
> >>
> >>Name: Graham Oakes
> >>Subject: Suggested meeting topic
> >>email: graham@grahamoakes.co.uk
> >>BCS Member: Yes
> >>Membership number: 09090846
> >>Branch affiliation: No change
> >>Message text: Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm helping the newly formed BCS Open Source group to set up its 
> >>meeting schedule for the next year.  Romilly Gregory of Oxfam has 
> >>agreed to speak on Oxfam's experience of using open source software 
> >>to implement document and content management systems, tentatively 
> >>scheduled for November.  (see
> >>http://ossg.bcs.org/organisation/discussion/committee/685824829386)
> >>
> >>As Romilly is based in Oxford, I'm wondering if it would be possible 
> >>to jointly organise this meeting with the Oxfordshire branch?  
> >>(That'd certainly help me in terms of logistics, as I'm based in 
> >>Cheshire.)
> >>
> >>Is this something you'd like to explore further?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Graham
> >>
> >>


Subject: Re: draft programme and actions from Tuesday's meeting
From: grahamoakes
To: committee@ossg.bcs.org
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:33:00 +0000


		  Hi,

I've had confirmation from Romilly of her talk title and speaker details, as follows:

The title is fine.  Case Study:  Oxfam and Open Source

Biog details:

Ms Romilly Gregory.  Systems Architecture Manager for Oxfam GB, responsible for Oxfams web based and marketing systems.  Also responsible for ensuring Oxfam GB adopts well thought through technical strategies for both infrastructure and applications. Worked for 20 years in the IT industry as a developer and IT manager, mainly in not for profit sector, notably for Amnesty International and Clinical Operational Research Unit (Univeristy College, London).


I'm still trying to settle on dates. November may be hard as it may clash with the World Summit on the Information Society, which Romilly may be attending.  Will continue to update via this thread.  One possibility is to reschedule to 27 April, when the BCS Oxfordshire Branch have a slot - I don't yet know how this works for Romilly.

Cheers,
Graham