Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board and Representational tasks

2007-08-17 Thread Cameron Shorter
Arnulf, I am delighted to hear about your light workload on the OSGeo Board. It gives me confidence that OSGeo is working better than I originally expected. I vote for board members I trust. I trust visible, respected OSGeo developers and evangelists. These people are always over committed. So

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board and Representational tasks

2007-08-17 Thread Daniel Morissette
Tim, I'm in agreement with most of your comments except this one: Tim Bowden wrote: Personally I think charter membership should be opened up to anyone who who wants to apply and can find an existing member or two to second their application. I realise part of the rationale for the current st

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board and Representational tasks (was: Geographic Diversity)

2007-08-17 Thread Tim Bowden
Ok, this one made me stop and think. Here goes On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 15:23 +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote: > 1,73 Euro-Cent > [OT] I'll take that since the $AU crashed so badly in the last few days! > Dearest all non-Directors, > this interesting thread is void of relevance as long as we have no be

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board and Representational tasks (was: Geographic Diversity)

2007-08-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
1,73 Euro-Cent Dearest all non-Directors, this interesting thread is void of relevance as long as we have no better understanding of what the title "OSGeo director" is good for. Let me share my experience as a director over the past 1,5 years and maybe you can help me to understand what this th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi Kishor, nice to know you are going for the last Dasehris of this summer. Please do visit OSGeo India at Hyderabad and Pune. Cheers Ravi Kumar Venkatesh Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P Kishor wrote: ... > > Now I go back to my remaining mangoes of the season here in the still > hot Luckn

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
P Kishor wrote: ... Now I go back to my remaining mangoes of the season here in the still hot Lucknow, India. Just back form India, myself. Hope you have time to look up the OSGeo folks in India (Hyderabad, Pune). Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Frank Frank Warmerdam wrote: I've yet to return to some of the interesting email since I went away on the challenges in the developing world (though many of them - at a glance - seems similar to the challenges we face in the developed world). Think are reffering to the e-mail from our