[annodex-announce] Re: [Advisory-panel] Annodex Association 2008 AGM and Election of 2008 comittee

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Here is my draft president report for tomorrow's AGM:

The committee had a monthly meeting every month of this last year
apart from July and October.

Activities that the association was involved with this year include
sponsorship of the FOMS workshop in Melbourne and Annodex codefests in
June and September.

The main challenges of this year were the move of hosting away from
CSIRO and the introduction of the W3C to the Annodex technology.

In March, we moved the Annodex servers away from CSIRO. The mailing
list and svn were merged into a Xiph infrastructure with the help of
Ralph Giles, who also provided two vmware servers to run the Annodex
Web servers on. These servers were deemed insufficient from a resource
perspective over the next few months and the Web servers
www.annodex.org, www.annodex.net, media.annodex.net, and
validator.xiph.org are now running on a vmware server graciously
provided by Chris Double of the Mozilla foundation.

In December, Michale Dale, Chris Double and Silvia Pfeiffer attended
the W3C Video workshop in San Jose. Many presentations at the workshop
expressed requirements for the future of video on the Web. We
represented Xiph and Theora, but also introduced CMML and the Annodex
server functionality, in particular what is possible with the new
liboggplay library of Shane Stephens and the javascript API of the new
Annodex firefox extension. The feedback was overwhelming.

One open challenge for the next year is to negotiate with CSIRO on the
Annodex trademark and some of the specialised software.

See you tomorrow!

Best Regards,
Silvia.




On Jan 24, 2008 5:09 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> There has been some confusion about the actual date of the AGM and we
> have actually got the room here in Melbourne booked for Friday, 6pm.
> So, all of you who planned in their time for tonight, I am terribly
> sorry and I hope you can find a little time for tomorrow.
>
> AGM will be on Friday, January 25th, 6pm Melbourne time.
>
> Best Regards,
> Silvia.
>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 6:18 PM, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:
>
> > --- Notice of Annual General Meeting of Annodex Association Inc ---
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Annodex Association AGM (Annual General Meeting).
> >
> > Date: Thursday January 24, 2008.
> > Time: 07:00 UTC (GMT)
> >
> > This corresponds to 18:00 in Melbourne, Australia. For other timezones, see:
> > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2008&month=1&day=24&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=152&p2=31&p3=224
> >
> > Location: Internet Relay Chat channel #anxassoc on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).
> >
> > For those in Melbourne, a room with internet connectivity will be
> > available at the FOMS venue, 257 Collins St.
> >
> > Agenda
> > ----------
> >
> > The agenda for the Annual General Meeting will be:
> >
> > 0. Confirmation of last AGM minutes
> > 1. President's report 2007
> > 2. Treasurer's report 2007
> > 3. Election of 2008 Annodex Association committee
> >
> > If you have any items to add, send an email to
> > committee at lists.annodex.net before the meeting.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Election of the 2008 Annodex Association committee
> >
> > As was done in 2007, we will be conducting the elections via an online
> > voting system, using an external Condorcet-based election system.
> >
> > Positions available are:
> >
> >  President
> >  Vice-President
> >  Secretary
> >  Treasurer
> >  3 Ordinary Members
> >
> > Please send nominations to annodex-association at lists.annodex.net.
> >
> > *** Nominations are NOW OPEN ***
> >
> > Nominations should include your name, the position you would like to
> > run for, and (optionally) a statement about what you would aim to
> > achieve in that role (ie. your election platform, why people should
> > vote for you).
> >
> > Nominees must be 2008 members of the Annodex Association, i.e. subscribed to
> > annodex-association at lists.annodex.net.
> >
> > Assuming nominations are received for all positions by Jan 3, then the
> > following election schedule will apply:
> >
> > Dec 13 (6 weeks prior to the AGM): nominations open
> > Jan 3 (3 weeks prior to the AGM): nominations closed, voting open
> >
> > Jan 23 (1 day prior to the AGM): voting closed
> > Jan 24 (AGM): 2008 committee announced
> >
> > ----
> > EOT
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