Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Pat Tressel]

> I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free for
> open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps a lot in
> getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But ... in two years,
> they may start shipping sponsors links at the end of the Readme files, and
> in a moments notice you have to watch 20 seconds ads before cloning. At
> this point, you will want to bail out, only to find out that in fact you
> can not, because you can not delete the project anymore, or the issue
> tracker database can not be exported ...
>

Apologies for disagreeing, but...  This is a misunderstanding of the
economics of online businesses.  I'm worried that the statements of
approval of this claim may skew future choices, and cause more work and
hassle and expense.

The companies that make money by showing advertising are *content
providers* such as newspapers, TV networks, Q sites,...  They have *no
other source of revenue*.

Hosting sites like GitHub make their money from *paid accounts*.  They do
not need advertising revenue.  Just because the "public" face of GitHub is
their free accounts does not mean that is the bulk of their activity.  It
is very common, and popular, for cloud sites to have a free tier.  Even
production hosting sites do this.

It is good marketing and helps train folks to use their tools, so that when
the time comes to recommend a hosting site or platform for a commercial
project, they will naturally gravitate to the site they're already using
and like.

The idea that GitHub, or Heroku, or OpenShift, or Gitorious, or Bitbucket,
or Pythonanywhere, or ShinyApps, or... would at some point go "Hah!  You're
trapped!" and start demanding payment for free accounts, inserting
compulsory advertising, or otherwise attacking their clients is so odd that
I have never before heard it expressed as a serious concern in any
open-source organization.  Given that GitHub is Linus Torvald's project,
there may be poison pills in their charter to prevent this even in a
hostile takeover.  Imagine the reaction if one of these companies did what
is being suggested. Their clients would vanish.  It's not hard to move from
site to site, especially if one is using a DVCS like git.  The folks
running these companies are not stupid, and most of the companies are
associated with open source in some way.

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[Pat Tressel]

> The companies that make money by showing advertising are *content
> providers* such as newspapers, TV networks, Q sites,...  They have *no
> other source of revenue*.
>

I should clarify that by "TV networks" I mean broadcast networks, not cable
companies that make money via subscriptions, and that I'm specifically
talking about online newspaper sites that offer free content.  Some
newspaper sites like WSJ and NYT are offering subscriptions, so do have a
source of revenue outside of ads.


> Hosting sites like GitHub make their money from *paid accounts*.  They do
> not need advertising revenue.  Just because the "public" face of GitHub is
> their free accounts does not mean that is the bulk of their activity.  It
> is very common, and popular, for cloud sites to have a free tier.  Even
> production hosting sites do this.
>
> It is good marketing and helps train folks to use their tools, so that
> when the time comes to recommend a hosting site or platform for a
> commercial project, they will naturally gravitate to the site they're
> already using and like.
>
> The idea that GitHub, or Heroku, or OpenShift, or Gitorious, or Bitbucket,
> or Pythonanywhere, or ShinyApps, or... would at some point go "Hah!  You're
> trapped!" and start demanding payment for free accounts, inserting
> compulsory advertising, or otherwise attacking their clients is so odd that
> I have never before heard it expressed as a serious concern in any
> open-source organization.
>


> Given that GitHub is Linus Torvald's project,
>

Sorry -- I should have verified that before parroting it.


> there may be poison pills in their charter to prevent this even in a
> hostile takeover.  Imagine the reaction if one of these companies did what
> is being suggested. Their clients would vanish.  It's not hard to move from
> site to site, especially if one is using a DVCS like git.  The folks
> running these companies are not stupid, and most of the companies are
> associated with open source in some way.
>
> -- Pat
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Julien Michel]

Le 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett a écrit :
Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy 
of the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ... 


Well, of course source code is safe with the distributed SCM paradigm. 
And I agree that Github is the social network of developers (that is why 
I said that all projects should have an official github mirror). I am 
more worried about all the secondary services offered: wiki, bugtracker, 
binary packages hosting ...


For what it is worth, I would like to cite two personal examples. In our 
project, we tried to get out of Jira to move to Tuleap [1]. After 
several months trying to export/import the complete set of information 
we have in Jira, we abandonned the idea. Sure we can leave, be we will 
leave behind a great deal of valuable stuff there. More recently, we 
moved our binary packages hosting out of Sourceforge. But ... in fact 
you can not remove a project from Sourceforge [2], so we have to write a 
redirection message. We can simply not cut the link with it. I agree 
that these are minor issues that do not impact the project itself, but 
somewhere on the road, we lost a bit of freedom.


Thanks to all of you for your comments,

Regards,

Julien

[1] https://www.tuleap.org/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/easyhtml5/tracinst/Removing%20a%20project/

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Suchith Anand]

Congratulations and welcome to the new Board members. Thanks also to  the 
outgoing directors for their contributions to OSGeo.

Thank you to all candidates who stood in this election. It is also great to see 
the global distribution of the OSGeo Board members.

Thank you Vasile for your efforts on the election process.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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Indeed, a very warm welcome to the new board!
And thanks to the other electable candidates for standing and to Vasile for 
facilitating the process!
Warm regards,
Jeroen

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> Op 30 sep. 2015 om 14:22 heeft Maria Antonia Brovelli 
>  het volgende geschreven:
>
> Congratulations and the warmest welcome to the New Directors!
> We thank you for having decided to sit a so time demanding chair.
> In any case, count on us!
> Cheers!
> Maria
>
>
>
> 
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
> Politecnico di Milano
>
> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; 
> OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
> Sol Katz Award 2015
>
> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
> e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it
> e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it
>
>
>
>
>
> 
> Da: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org  per 
> conto di Vasile Craciunescu 
> Inviato: mercoledì 30 settembre 2015 14.12
> A: OSGeo Discussions; charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: CRO
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results
>
> Dear all,
>
> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
>
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process.
> Overall voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
>
> - 246 complete votes;
> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
>
> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
>
> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
>
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Massimiliano Cannata
> - Michael Smith
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Vasile Craciunescu
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>
> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
> year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
> wiki.
>
> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
>
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart,
> thank you very much!
>
> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
> thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
> rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
>
> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
> further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
> his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
> continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
> reopen two discussions:
>
> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
> analysis);
> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels
> and retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting
> statistics for the last couple of years).
>
> Best regards.
> Vasile
> CRO 2015
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Andy Anderson]

There is already an open alternative to GitHub known as GitLab:

https://about.gitlab.com

Pull your own copy of the software and put it on your own server if you want. 
Or pay specifically for hosting.

Healthy competition, methinks.

— Andy

On Sep 30, 2015, at 1:20 AM, Paolo Cavallini  wrote:

> Il 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
> 
>>I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free
>>for open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps
>>a lot in getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But
>>... in two years, they may start shipping sponsors links at the end
>>of the Readme files, and in a moments notice you have to watch 20
>>seconds ads before cloning. At this point, you will want to bail
>>out, only to find out that in fact you can not, because you can not
>>delete the project anymore, or the issue tracker database can not be
>>exported ...
>> 
>> 
>> Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy of
>> the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ... 
> 
> I think the concerns about GH are real. I feel uneasy putting strategic
> pieces of infrastructure in the hands of a company is risky over the
> long term. It is true that we have a copy of the whole code base and
> history, but the scenarios suggested are possible and worrisome.
> All the best.
> -- 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Jeff McKenna]

A huge welcome to the new board members (Anita, Helena, Jody, Sanghee, 
Venka) thank you for volunteering your time to help the foundation. 
Please be sure to join the OSGeo Board mailing list now (subscribe at 
http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/board).


A big hug to both Nimalika and Dirk, for your continued leadership.  I 
had the privilege to meet again with Nimalika in Seoul (those meetings 
with leaders like her are why I step on a plane for 21 hours), and we 
also were able to see Dirk through Skype at the Annual General Meeting 
session in Seoul.  I cannot say enough about the work of both of them, 
for OSGeo.


Thank you to the departing board members: Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald 
and Bart.  I know that they will continue their leadership in OSGeo, 
that is for sure.


Vasile, well, he did a massive amount of work to manage this election 
process.  He gave so many opportunities and ways for charter members to 
speak up and give opinions.  And most importantly (a key part in 
leadership) he listened to everyone.  Thank you Vasile for your 
dedication to the community.


-jeff


--
Jeff McKenna
President, OSGeo
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna


On 2015-09-30 9:12 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:

Dear all,

Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Sanghee Shin
- Venkatesh Raghavan

Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process.
Overall voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):

- 246 complete votes;
- 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
- 26 members did not open the survey at all.

There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!

The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Massimiliano Cannata
- Michael Smith
- Sanghee Shin
- Vasile Craciunescu
- Venkatesh Raghavan

With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
wiki.

Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!

We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart,
thank you very much!

We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.

My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
reopen two discussions:

- Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
analysis);
- Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels
and retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting
statistics for the last couple of years).

Best regards.
Vasile
CRO 2015

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

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[Jeroen Ticheler]

Indeed, a very warm welcome to the new board! 
And thanks to the other electable candidates for standing and to Vasile for 
facilitating the process!
Warm regards,
Jeroen

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> Op 30 sep. 2015 om 14:22 heeft Maria Antonia Brovelli 
>  het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Congratulations and the warmest welcome to the New Directors! 
> We thank you for having decided to sit a so time demanding chair. 
> In any case, count on us!
> Cheers!
> Maria
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
> Politecnico di Milano
> 
> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; 
> OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
> Sol Katz Award 2015
> 
> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
> e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it
> e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Da: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org  per 
> conto di Vasile Craciunescu 
> Inviato: mercoledì 30 settembre 2015 14.12
> A: OSGeo Discussions; charter-memb...@lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: CRO
> Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
> 
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process.
> Overall voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
> 
> - 246 complete votes;
> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
> 
> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
> 
> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
> 
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Massimiliano Cannata
> - Michael Smith
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Vasile Craciunescu
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
> year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
> wiki.
> 
> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
> 
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart,
> thank you very much!
> 
> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
> thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
> rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
> 
> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
> further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
> his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
> continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
> reopen two discussions:
> 
> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
> analysis);
> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels
> and retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting
> statistics for the last couple of years).
> 
> Best regards.
> Vasile
> CRO 2015
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
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[Mateusz Loskot]

On 30 September 2015 at 14:42, Jeroen Ticheler
 wrote:
> Indeed, a very warm welcome to the new board!
> And thanks to the other electable candidates for standing and to Vasile for 
> facilitating the process!

Congratulations, indeed!

Vasile thanks for the great job, and support :)

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[Mateusz Loskot]

On 30 September 2015 at 07:20, Paolo Cavallini  wrote:
> Il 30/09/2015 02:04, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>
>> I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free
>> for open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps
>> a lot in getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But
>> ... in two years, they may start shipping sponsors links at the end
>> of the Readme files, and in a moments notice you have to watch 20
>> seconds ads before cloning. At this point, you will want to bail
>> out, only to find out that in fact you can not, because you can not
>> delete the project anymore, or the issue tracker database can not be
>> exported ...
>>
>>
>> Not much of a problem here, since git means each developer has a copy of
>> the whole project. I know we had the same story with SourceForge ...
>
> I think the concerns about GH are real. I feel uneasy putting strategic
> pieces of infrastructure in the hands of a company is risky over the
> long term. It is true that we have a copy of the whole code base and
> history, but the scenarios suggested are possible and worrisome.

There is also another aspect of the "All move to GitHub, now!" trend,
less obvious than technical ones, I guess.

On one side, OSGeo is FOSS advocate and we advocate it loud.
via numerous keynote speaches given at events around the World.
On the other, we gradually move to proprietary infrastructure based
on non-FOSS, namely GitHub.

The two sides clash, don't they?
People may get confused.

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[Bart van den Eijnden]

Thanks a lot Vasile for your hard work.

Best of luck to the new board members!

Best regards,
Bart

> On 30 Sep 2015, at 14:12, Vasile Craciunescu  wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
> 
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall 
> voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
> 
> - 246 complete votes;
> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
> 
> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
> 
> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
> 
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Massimiliano Cannata
> - Michael Smith
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Vasile Craciunescu
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last year, 
> the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our wiki.
> 
> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
> 
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart, thank 
> you very much!
> 
> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk, thanks 
> for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the rest of the 
> members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
> 
> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to further 
> grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all his hard 
> work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his continuous 
> support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and reopen two 
> discussions:
> 
> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and analysis);
> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and 
> retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for the 
> last couple of years).
> 
> Best regards.
> Vasile
> CRO 2015
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
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[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Sanghee Shin
- Venkatesh Raghavan

Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. 
Overall voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):


- 246 complete votes;
- 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
- 26 members did not open the survey at all.

There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!

The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Massimiliano Cannata
- Michael Smith
- Sanghee Shin
- Vasile Craciunescu
- Venkatesh Raghavan

With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last 
year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our 
wiki.


Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!

We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart, 
thank you very much!


We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk, 
thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the 
rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.


My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to 
further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all 
his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his 
continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and 
reopen two discussions:


- Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and 
analysis);
- Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels 
and retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting 
statistics for the last couple of years).


Best regards.
Vasile
CRO 2015

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

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[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Congratulations and the warmest welcome to the New Directors! 
We thank you for having decided to sit a so time demanding chair. 
In any case, count on us!
Cheers!
Maria




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di Vasile Craciunescu 
Inviato: mercoledì 30 settembre 2015 14.12
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Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

Dear all,

Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Sanghee Shin
- Venkatesh Raghavan

Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process.
Overall voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):

- 246 complete votes;
- 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
- 26 members did not open the survey at all.

There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!

The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Massimiliano Cannata
- Michael Smith
- Sanghee Shin
- Vasile Craciunescu
- Venkatesh Raghavan

With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
wiki.

Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!

We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart,
thank you very much!

We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.

My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
reopen two discussions:

- Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
analysis);
- Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels
and retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting
statistics for the last couple of years).

Best regards.
Vasile
CRO 2015

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors

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[Vasile Craciunescu]

On 9/30/15 3:12 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:


The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:

- Anita Graser
- Helena Mitasova
- Jody Garnett
- Massimiliano Cannata
- Michael Smith
- Sanghee Shin
- Vasile Craciunescu
- Venkatesh Raghavan


The complete list also includes our president, Jeff McKenna. Thanks to 
Even Rouault for spotting this mistake.


Best,
Vasile

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[Angelos Tzotsos]

Congratulations to the new board members and many many thanks to Vasile 
and the departing members for all their hard work.


Best,
Angelos

On 09/30/2015 03:46 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

On 30 September 2015 at 14:42, Jeroen Ticheler
 wrote:

Indeed, a very warm welcome to the new board!
And thanks to the other electable candidates for standing and to Vasile for 
facilitating the process!

Congratulations, indeed!

Vasile thanks for the great job, and support :)

Best regards,



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Santiago Higuera]

+1, my best regards

El mié, 30-09-2015 a las 15:51 +0300, Angelos Tzotsos escribió:
> Congratulations to the new board members and many many thanks to Vasile 
> and the departing members for all their hard work.
> 
> Best,
> Angelos
> 
> On 09/30/2015 03:46 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> > On 30 September 2015 at 14:42, Jeroen Ticheler
> >  wrote:
> >> Indeed, a very warm welcome to the new board!
> >> And thanks to the other electable candidates for standing and to Vasile 
> >> for facilitating the process!
> > Congratulations, indeed!
> >
> > Vasile thanks for the great job, and support :)
> >
> > Best regards,
> 
> 


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

Jeff has put all that has to be said in his e-mail below.
Many thanks to our outgoing Board members for
their valuable time and relentless efforts for the Foundation.

Looking forward to working with the new board and members
in keeping the OSGeo flag flying high.

Best

Venka

On 2015/09/30 21:41, Jeff McKenna wrote:
A huge welcome to the new board members (Anita, Helena, Jody, Sanghee, 
Venka) thank you for volunteering your time to help the foundation. 
Please be sure to join the OSGeo Board mailing list now (subscribe at 
http://lists.osgeo.org/listinfo/board).


A big hug to both Nimalika and Dirk, for your continued leadership.  I 
had the privilege to meet again with Nimalika in Seoul (those meetings 
with leaders like her are why I step on a plane for 21 hours), and we 
also were able to see Dirk through Skype at the Annual General Meeting 
session in Seoul.  I cannot say enough about the work of both of them, 
for OSGeo.


Thank you to the departing board members: Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald 
and Bart.  I know that they will continue their leadership in OSGeo, 
that is for sure.


Vasile, well, he did a massive amount of work to manage this election 
process.  He gave so many opportunities and ways for charter members 
to speak up and give opinions.  And most importantly (a key part in 
leadership) he listened to everyone. Thank you Vasile for your 
dedication to the community.


-jeff




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[Dirk Frigne]

Thank you Vasile for you great job!
Congratulations for all board members.
The discussions during last week give a lot of material to work on!

Succes with a 'relevant' OSGeo organisation.

D.

On 30-09-15 18:45, Nimalika Fernando wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Congratulations for all board members!
> 
> All are well deserved, strong leaders  who would contribute immensely to
> make OSgeo  stronger and  grow around the world with community spirit.
> 
> Thank you Vasile for wonderful job! It is remarkable indeed.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Nimalika
> 
> 
> 
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[Massimiliano Cannata]

Congratulation to all the new board members and thanks to all that stand
for election. Your support will be very valuable.

Lookinh forward for great work to be done togheter.

Best
Maxi
Il 30/Set/2015 14:12, "Vasile Craciunescu"  ha
scritto:

> Dear all,
>
> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
>
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall
> voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
>
> - 246 complete votes;
> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
>
> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
>
> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
>
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Massimiliano Cannata
> - Michael Smith
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Vasile Craciunescu
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>
> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
> year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
> wiki.
>
> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
>
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart, thank
> you very much!
>
> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
> thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the
> rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
>
> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
> further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all
> his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his
> continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and
> reopen two discussions:
>
> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and
> analysis);
> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and
> retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for
> the last couple of years).
>
> Best regards.
> Vasile
> CRO 2015
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
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[Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl]

Thanks you Vasile, for pushing the participation to 88%.
Best wishes to the entire new Board, and of course thanks as well to the
other candidates. 

Kind regards, 

Gert-Jan



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[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Namens Jorge Sanz
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results

Amazing job Vasile.

Warm welcome to the board for the new members and my best wishes to you and
all the board for the next term.

Cheers!!!

On 30 September 2015 at 15:27, Bart van den Eijnden 
wrote:
> Thanks a lot Vasile for your hard work.
>
> Best of luck to the new board members!
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>> On 30 Sep 2015, at 14:12, Vasile Craciunescu 
wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open 
>> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats 
>> open and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
>>
>> - Anita Graser
>> - Helena Mitasova
>> - Jody Garnett
>> - Sanghee Shin
>> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>>
>> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall
voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
>>
>> - 246 complete votes;
>> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
>> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
>>
>> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
>>
>> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
>>
>> - Anita Graser
>> - Helena Mitasova
>> - Jody Garnett
>> - Massimiliano Cannata
>> - Michael Smith
>> - Sanghee Shin
>> - Vasile Craciunescu
>> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>>
>> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4] 
>> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last
year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our
wiki.
>>
>> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo
directors!
>>
>> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support 
>> of OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great 
>> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart,
thank you very much!
>>
>> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo 
>> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk,
thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the rest
of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
>>
>> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to
further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all his
hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his continuous
support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and reopen two
discussions:
>>
>> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and 
>> analysis);
>> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and
retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for
the last couple of years).
>>
>> Best regards.
>> Vasile
>> CRO 2015
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
>> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
>> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
>>
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[Jorge Sanz]

Amazing job Vasile.

Warm welcome to the board for the new members and my best wishes to
you and all the board for the next term.

Cheers!!!

On 30 September 2015 at 15:27, Bart van den Eijnden  wrote:
> Thanks a lot Vasile for your hard work.
>
> Best of luck to the new board members!
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>> On 30 Sep 2015, at 14:12, Vasile Craciunescu  wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
>> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
>> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
>>
>> - Anita Graser
>> - Helena Mitasova
>> - Jody Garnett
>> - Sanghee Shin
>> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>>
>> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall 
>> voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
>>
>> - 246 complete votes;
>> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
>> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
>>
>> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
>>
>> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
>>
>> - Anita Graser
>> - Helena Mitasova
>> - Jody Garnett
>> - Massimiliano Cannata
>> - Michael Smith
>> - Sanghee Shin
>> - Vasile Craciunescu
>> - Venkatesh Raghavan
>>
>> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
>> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last year, 
>> the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our wiki.
>>
>> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
>>
>> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
>> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
>> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart, thank 
>> you very much!
>>
>> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
>> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk, thanks 
>> for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the rest of the 
>> members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
>>
>> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to further 
>> grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all his hard 
>> work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his continuous 
>> support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and reopen two 
>> discussions:
>>
>> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and analysis);
>> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and 
>> retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for 
>> the last couple of years).
>>
>> Best regards.
>> Vasile
>> CRO 2015
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
>> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
>> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
>>
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[Nimalika Fernando]

Dear all,

Congratulations for all board members!

All are well deserved, strong leaders  who would contribute immensely to
make OSgeo  stronger and  grow around the world with community spirit.

Thank you Vasile for wonderful job! It is remarkable indeed.

Cheers

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