Hi All "One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a sort of global council. "
+1 for this Gobal representation in OSGeo and the above initiative are welcome. Ravi Kumar --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Mateusz Loskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Mateusz Loskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10:22 PM On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote: > > On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:47, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: >> > >> On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: >> >> >>> Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people to >>> represent the foundation, based on the merits and commitment with >>> the >>> usual free software values, rather than a geographic >>> representation. Of >>> course having elected people from all over the world should be a >>> sign >>> that FOSS4G is spreading and OSGeo is getting more and more broader. >> >> Since there are only a few open positions for board elections each >> year, it will take some time to see any long term movement in >> representation either way. In addition to to "merits and >> commitment" I >> would also add "vision" to the list of positive attributes for board >> members. >> >> One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a >> group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a >> sort of >> global council. This doesn't have to be a new or separate mailing >> list, >> but could be. Just having a group to go to for sharing thoughts, >> ideas >> and vision would be really valuable. Sound good? >> >> Tyler > > Yes. > > I didn't want to let this pass uncommented. But yet again I was too > elaborate and thus moved it to my emerging http://arnulf.us/Blog Arnulf, I'd love to syndicate your blog on the Planet OSGeo, however I'm having troubles with getting clean and usable RSS/Atom entries :-( Perhaps you wouldn't mind to fix it? Certainly, my request is valid only if you would like to get syndicated :-) Ciao -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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