Certainly. Last year Rob (who is new to our open source community) volunteered to chair foss4gna.
I think it is amazing when we have volunteers, especially when they are new to the community. Indeed my first response is to be careful that in their enthusiasm a new volunteer does not take on too much and burn out. Based on my experience I feared setting up a conference was going to qualify as too much. I had hoped we would be welcoming, and concerned for his welfare when faced with such a large task. There were some questions about what was going on, who LocationTech was, and so forth. Our strength at OSGeo is being a people powered organization. I had hoped we would look out for the people (such as Rob) and was embarrassed when we missed that mark. Sorry if that is a bit harsh, expressing personal feeling etc... -- Jody -- Jody Garnett On 12 November 2015 at 15:46, Venkatesh Raghavan < ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: > Hi Jody, > > On 2015/11/12 20:01, Jody Garnett wrote: > >> I have gotten a number of private emails expressing concerns about >> LocationTech being involved in several of the foss4g bids. I guess I had >> the opposite concern last year when there was the joint OSGeo / >> LocationTech foss4gna conference. I was kind of embarrassed our behavior >> as >> a community - would prefer to see us as welcoming and supportive >> (especially as we had a first time organizer that could use our support). >> > > Can you clarify what "our" in your e-mail points to? > I cannot understand "*our* behaviour as a community" and > "first time organizer that could use *our* support. > > Venka > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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