AGM at GUADEC 2017

Planning for the GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting, 2017.

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Saturday, July 29th at 16:00. Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

What are some topics that you'd like to see covered in the AGM? This could be a list of general points for discussion.

How can we make the AGM more fun and engaging? Put your name by your idea so we can ask you more about it. Keep in mind these are only ideas!

Prizes under seats: Oprah sometimes gives away cars to her audience members - we could too! Like a lego car or something. Basically, at the end of the conference we would tell people to feel under their seats and one lucky person would find a note stuck to the bottom of their seat saying they've won. (Nuritzi)
Points for Houses/Teams: If we end up splitting everyone up into different houses/teams during GUADEC, we may want to pepper a few questions for the audience throughout the AGM that will help them win points for their house/team. (Nuritzi)
Throwing prizes: Shaun has thrown Mallard balls out at audience members in previous years and people seem to really enjoy that. Is there something we could throw out? Maybe we can make some SWAG items that can be meant for throwing out at AGMs and speaking events. (Nuritzi)
Skits. Instead of just saying what the Board does / how we can help, we could act it out. p.s. I don't particularly like acting, but... it could be fun? (Nuritzi)

Welcome and introduction - ED
- Introduction to the Foundation - what it's for, what it does
- AGM introduction - purpose of the meeting, overview
Board of Directors 2017-18 - ED
- Introduce the new board members and officers
- Thank outgoing directors
Foundation update - president
Financial report - treasurer
Present committees for 2017-18 - introduced by the president
Committees presentations - introduced by the president
- Travel?
- Membership?
Team reports - introduced by the president
- Translations
- Docs
- Sysadmin
- Design
- Release
- Engagement
Pants - President