Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

[Jody Garnett]

Hey Jeff,

Takes a lot of courage to step up in general, and even more to step up an
apologize in public.

Respect
Jody

On 13 October 2017 at 08:33, Jeff McKenna 
wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> Your questions are great, and I think I tackled most of them in my
> manifesto/vision document.  But I think I did not properly address the
> "what has not worked as well as you hoped?".
>
> In a job interview this is always a good question, a great way to
> self-examine and openly discuss things that come more difficult for you.
>
> I think in my case, I let my passion sometimes get in the way of
> professionalism.  This is my downside in OSGeo.  I have so much passion for
> helping the OSGeo community, that I can sometimes come off as disrespectful
> to others in the community (Andrea Ross, Bart, Mark Lucas).   I am sorry
> for that.   If we were at an event right now I would walk directly over to
> each of them now to talk.   I am sorry that my words were disrespectful to
> you, and (in each case) I am sure I was wrong.
>
> I am sure there are others upset at me, for almost 17 years is a long time
> to work in the Open community.
>
> I am truly sorry.
>
> If it sounds not meaningful, this actually comes from my heart.  We are
> all on the same team.
>
> I support you all as leaders, true leaders.
>
> I may have failed you in the past.
>
> I am sorry.
>
> Steven, thanks for the great questions.  I hope my honest answer helps
> understand me, just one of the many great nominees for the 2017 Board.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2017-10-09 11:12 AM, Steven Feldman wrote:
>
>> First up my respect and thanks to the 9 candidates that have agreed to
>> stand for a position on the OSGeo Board. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Bo
>> ard_Member_Nominations_2017 It is a fantastic indication of our vibrant,
>> passionate community that we have 9 people willing to offer their
>> experience, wisdom, energy and most importantly time to serve.
>>
>> Charter members, we have a tough choice to make to select 5 of these 9
>> outstanding candidates to serve for the next 2 years. I thought I would
>> share some of the considerations that will influence my choices when we get
>> to vote, they may help others to identify what is important to them in
>> making their choices and they may also prompt some of the candidates when
>> they write their personal statements/manifestos.
>>
>> We have an opportunity to shape the board in terms of professional
>> background, gender and experience
>>
>>   * The current board is balanced between practitioners/developers and
>> academics - do we want to maintain that balance?
>>   * Currently 3/9 of the board are women (Anita is standing down, thanks
>> for your contributions, Helena is standing for re-election)
>>   * 4 of the 5 board members standing down are standing for re-election,
>> additionally 2 past members of the board are standing for election.
>> There are 3 candidates who have not served on the board.
>>
>>
>> Some questions for candidates:
>>
>>   * If you are standing for re-election - what roles have you taken in
>> the last 2 years? what do you believe you have achieved and what has
>> not worked as well as you hoped?
>>   * All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work
>> on within the board and why? what do you hope to contribute and
>> achieve in the next 2 years?
>>   * If there was only 1 thing you could change in the next 2 years what
>> would it be?
>>
>>
>> May the FOSS be with you all
>> __
>> Steven
>>
>>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Steven,

Your questions are great, and I think I tackled most of them in my 
manifesto/vision document.  But I think I did not properly address the 
"what has not worked as well as you hoped?".


In a job interview this is always a good question, a great way to 
self-examine and openly discuss things that come more difficult for you.


I think in my case, I let my passion sometimes get in the way of 
professionalism.  This is my downside in OSGeo.  I have so much passion 
for helping the OSGeo community, that I can sometimes come off as 
disrespectful to others in the community (Andrea Ross, Bart, Mark 
Lucas).   I am sorry for that.   If we were at an event right now I 
would walk directly over to each of them now to talk.   I am sorry that 
my words were disrespectful to you, and (in each case) I am sure I was 
wrong.


I am sure there are others upset at me, for almost 17 years is a long 
time to work in the Open community.


I am truly sorry.

If it sounds not meaningful, this actually comes from my heart.  We are 
all on the same team.


I support you all as leaders, true leaders.

I may have failed you in the past.

I am sorry.

Steven, thanks for the great questions.  I hope my honest answer helps 
understand me, just one of the many great nominees for the 2017 Board.


-jeff




On 2017-10-09 11:12 AM, Steven Feldman wrote:
First up my respect and thanks to the 9 candidates that have agreed to 
stand for a position on the OSGeo Board. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017 It is a 
fantastic indication of our vibrant, passionate community that we have 9 
people willing to offer their experience, wisdom, energy and most 
importantly time to serve.


Charter members, we have a tough choice to make to select 5 of these 9 
outstanding candidates to serve for the next 2 years. I thought I would 
share some of the considerations that will influence my choices when we 
get to vote, they may help others to identify what is important to them 
in making their choices and they may also prompt some of the candidates 
when they write their personal statements/manifestos.


We have an opportunity to shape the board in terms of professional 
background, gender and experience


  * The current board is balanced between practitioners/developers and
academics - do we want to maintain that balance?
  * Currently 3/9 of the board are women (Anita is standing down, thanks
for your contributions, Helena is standing for re-election)
  * 4 of the 5 board members standing down are standing for re-election,
additionally 2 past members of the board are standing for election.
There are 3 candidates who have not served on the board.


Some questions for candidates:

  * If you are standing for re-election - what roles have you taken in
the last 2 years? what do you believe you have achieved and what has
not worked as well as you hoped?
  * All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work
on within the board and why? what do you hope to contribute and
achieve in the next 2 years?
  * If there was only 1 thing you could change in the next 2 years what
would it be?


May the FOSS be with you all
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

[Helena Mitasova]

1. If you are standing for re-election - what roles have you taken in the last 
2 years? what do you believe you have achieved and what has not worked as well 
as you hoped?

First of all I am happy that we are in a different place than where we were 
when I ran in 2015
out of concerns for the future of OSGeo - thanks to the OSGeo community 
standing up and the new board
working together (thanks GeoCat for providing space for f2f board meeting at a 
critical time)
we have a thriving organization with the new generation bringing in energy and 
vision for future.

I served as vicepresident, taking responsibility for working with geoforall 
initiative and memoranda of understanding.
We signed several new MoUs and renewed those that were expiring, as a result we 
have co-organized sessions 
and workshops at partner conferences, presented webinars and formalized 
existing collaborations, 
spreading the knowledge and passion for open source geospatial.
For geoforall, see my presentation from FOSS4G 2017 here
https://ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/geoforall/#/ 

I also tried to help with the website, although Jody did the heavy lifting for 
the board.
Website has forced us to go through everything that we do and re-evaluate what 
works and what needs to change
so the impact of this effort goes way beyond an outreach and webpresence.

What  has not worked?
On-line meetings and email exchanges have challenges, sometimes leading to 
miscomunication. 
Keeping track of meetings and action items has not always been easy, although 
loomio has helped (thanks Anita for introducing it).
F2f meetings help but we had very few.

2. All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work on within 
the board and why?
what do you hope to contribute and achieve in the next 2 years?

I plan to continue my previous work with geofroall and our partners
and contribute to successful delivery of the website to the community to take 
over.
I would like to build bridges between academia and industry, both in terms of 
education and research/development 
to help open source geospatial grow new generation of passionate developers, 
users and community builders.
I also feel that from time to time it is useful to provide instituitional 
memory as one of the founding members.

If there was only 1 thing you could change in the next 2 years what would it be?

This may sound bureaucratic and totally non-visionary but although we have made 
a progress in dividing the work 
within the board and between the board and the committees,
 I would like to have an appointed board secretary responsible for scheduling 
meetings, managing agenda,   
minutes and votes to ensure that initiatives, projects and committees are 
served in timely manner
and board members can focus on more visionary discussions, activities and 
decision making.

Helena


> On Oct 9, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Steven Feldman  wrote:
> 
> First up my respect and thanks to the 9 candidates that have agreed to stand 
> for a position on the OSGeo Board. 
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017 
>  It is a fantastic 
> indication of our vibrant, passionate community that we have 9 people willing 
> to offer their experience, wisdom, energy and most importantly time to serve.
> 
> Charter members, we have a tough choice to make to select 5 of these 9 
> outstanding candidates to serve for the next 2 years. I thought I would share 
> some of the considerations that will influence my choices when we get to 
> vote, they may help others to identify what is important to them in making 
> their choices and they may also prompt some of the candidates when they write 
> their personal statements/manifestos.
> 
> We have an opportunity to shape the board in terms of professional 
> background, gender and experience
> 
> The current board is balanced between practitioners/developers and academics 
> - do we want to maintain that balance?
> Currently 3/9 of the board are women (Anita is standing down, thanks for your 
> contributions, Helena is standing for re-election)
> 4 of the 5 board members standing down are standing for re-election, 
> additionally 2 past members of the board are standing for election. There are 
> 3 candidates who have not served on the board.
> 
> Some questions for candidates:
> If you are standing for re-election - what roles have you taken in the last 2 
> years? what do you believe you have achieved and what has not worked as well 
> as you hoped?
> All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work on within 
> the board and why? what do you hope to contribute and achieve in the next 2 
> years?
> If there was only 1 thing you could change in the next 2 years what would it 
> be?
> 
> May the FOSS be with you all 
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

[María Arias de Reyna]

>
>
>- All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work
>on within the board and why? what do you hope to contribute and achieve in
>the next 2 years?
>
> I think this is answered here on the Manifesto:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017_Candidate_Manifestos#Mar.C3.ADa_Arias_de_Reyna_Dom.C3.ADnguez


   - Promoting diversity (geographical, ethnical, cultural and gender)

I know I have some privilege-blindness here as I am a highly educated
"white" binary-gendered female-born living in an european country. But
still, as president of a WIT association that is already improving
diversity in my region, I think I can push OSGeo a bit forward and help
introducing more diversity until I crash into my ceiling glass of
privilege-blindness.

   - Promoting FLOSS

I would like to go back to the free/open discussion, as making sure our
contributions are reusable and useful should be one of the core goals of
OSGeo. If we become too lax on the open definition, we may end up promoting
closed software that only helps the owner of the source code, not the
community.

>
>- If there was only 1 thing you could change in the next 2 years what
>would it be?
>
> This is a difficult one. I hope I don't really have to choose in the end.

But I think the diversity one is the one I would change. Because diversity
will also bring more quality, which means better forms of collaboration,
affecting incidentally the other goal.

I would hope that the freedom promotion can hold two years more without me,
specially because I know there are very good advocators fighting this war
already and it is a mid-term battle, not a two-years battle.


> May the FOSS be with you all
>

May the FLOSS be with you!
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Members: What kind of an OSGeo Board do we want?

[Steven Feldman]

First up my respect and thanks to the 9 candidates that have agreed to stand 
for a position on the OSGeo Board. 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2017 
 It is a fantastic 
indication of our vibrant, passionate community that we have 9 people willing 
to offer their experience, wisdom, energy and most importantly time to serve.

Charter members, we have a tough choice to make to select 5 of these 9 
outstanding candidates to serve for the next 2 years. I thought I would share 
some of the considerations that will influence my choices when we get to vote, 
they may help others to identify what is important to them in making their 
choices and they may also prompt some of the candidates when they write their 
personal statements/manifestos.

We have an opportunity to shape the board in terms of professional background, 
gender and experience

The current board is balanced between practitioners/developers and academics - 
do we want to maintain that balance?
Currently 3/9 of the board are women (Anita is standing down, thanks for your 
contributions, Helena is standing for re-election)
4 of the 5 board members standing down are standing for re-election, 
additionally 2 past members of the board are standing for election. There are 3 
candidates who have not served on the board.

Some questions for candidates:
If you are standing for re-election - what roles have you taken in the last 2 
years? what do you believe you have achieved and what has not worked as well as 
you hoped?
All candidates - what role, specific topics would you like to work on within 
the board and why? what do you hope to contribute and achieve in the next 2 
years?
If there was only 1 thing you could change in the next 2 years what would it be?

May the FOSS be with you all 
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Steven


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