Hey everybody,

Anybody here planning on going to the FOSA AGM or running for a
position? All details available online [1], but the quick version is
that it's on June 17 (the coming Wednesday) at 7pm at the Singapore
Management University, School of Information Systems (SMU-SIS), room
NSR 2.1 (it coincides with this month's SLMG, so if you're going for
that, you'll be there already). I'll probably be heading there from
the NUS campus, so we could meet up on campus and head there together.

Do show up if you can: there's a bunch of positions to fill, and we
really need a pan-open-source organization in Singapore; I think
FOSA's exactly the right idea coming at exactly the right time.

cheers,
Gaurav

[1] http://open-source-alliance.sg/node/33

On Jun 3, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Ruiwen Chua wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tom Goh <tomgohj@...>
> Date: 2009/6/3
> Subject: [Slugnet] Free and Open Source Alliance - First AGM
> To: slugnet <slugnet@...>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> As you may or may not have known The Singapore Linux Meetup Group
> (SLMG) in partnership with many other open source groups and
> enthusiasts have been working towards the formation of the Free and
> Open Source Alliance (FOSA) in Singapore. We registered our
> alliance on April 1, 2009 and soon after got approval from the
> Registry of Societies. Our goals for this Alliance are:
>
> 1. To promote the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in
> Singapore through advocacy and education;
> 2. To create an alliance of Free and Open Source Software groups in
> Singapore that will serve as a unifying resource for the entire Free
> and Open Source Software community of Singapore;
> 3. To act as a conduit between the Free and Open Source Software
> community and academia, business, government and the public of
> Singapore;
> 4. To be a vendor-neutral organization;
> 5. To groom and support the future Free and Open Source Software
> leaders of Singapore.
>
> As part of our requirements with the Registry of Societies, we are
> required to hold our Annual General Meeting (AGM) within 3 months of
> the formation of a Society. As such, SLMG will be using the June
> Meetup to hold our AGM. During this meeting we will need to conduct
> our first general election and then followup with some
> administrative items. As this is a critical step we will require
> your support to make this a successful event.
>
> If you are interested in running for a position within the
> organization please contact me and I will add you to the ballot.
> The positions that are being elected into are the following:
>
> - President (Currently Held by Darrel Chua)
> - Vice-President
> - Secretary (Currently Held by Thomas Goh)
> - Assistant Secretary
> - Treasurer
> - Assistant Treasurer
> - Five (5) other Full Members in the posts of Ordinary Members of
> the Executive Committee.
>
> Following the election of the posts, we will discuss a number of
> items that we need to get sorted out.
>
> 1. Establishment of a Bank Account.
> 2. Establisnment of Membership Dues.
> 3. Registration of new members.
> 4. Official Support of Software Freedom Day.
> 4. Any other business that requires attention.
>
> To find out more about how FOSA will be managed, please see our
> constitution:
>
> http://open-source-alliance.sg/node/25