Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

I agree with Cameron that there are many ways to contribute to and be an important part of OSGeo without being on the board.  From some of what I am reading it appears some people are in a situation where it would significantly help them participate if there was a more formal recognition of their

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

-Discuss] My feelings about board elections Hello all, I am a new Charter Member, so I've just been taking all of this in (and been somewhat horrified by all that has transpired, if I'm being candid). But I haven't felt strongly enough to chime in until I saw the note from Frank about a method

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hello all, I am a new Charter Member, so I've just been taking all of this in (and been somewhat horrified by all that has transpired, if I'm being candid). But I haven't felt strongly enough to chime in until I saw the note from Frank about a method for ensuring women and non NA-EU folks are on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Extending on Maria's comments (and others), I think we are over-emphasising the relative importance of the OSGeo board. Reducing the importance of the board will increase the importance and influence of our OSGeo committees. If OSGeo is a Do-ocracy and Meritocracy, and the influencers in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Let me just suggest, again, that the board be elected using Ranked Choice Voting with Proportional Representation. This allows the different significant interests that are still in the minority of the membership to coalesce around candidates who represent those interests so that they can get a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Dear all, Sorry for the late response. I was busy going back from different timezones and that is a killer for me (travelling, being sleepy, etc...). I agree with Sanghee that we have gone one step backwards. We have lost Asia in the board. That's a step backwards we shouldn't have had. And I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi Vicky +1 indeed about your personal submission. But think of cases other than yourself.. a change of perspective.. Cheers Ravi On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Vicky Vergara wrote: > Hi all, Frank: > > I have being woman all my life and also Mexican, I fall in both >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi Frank, that is being Frank. +1 indeed about an equitable distribution of Board around the Globe/Regions (other than North America Europe and Australia). The users are in greater numbers in the developing world, and the very welcome businesses are in the developed world. +1 for your lines "I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi all, Frank: I have being woman all my life and also Mexican, I fall in both categories, but personally I want to win in a fair game, not to fill a quota, and in this case is two quotas!!!. I don't feel that ever in my life I won something to fill a quota and I don't want to start to be used to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: > Will be happy to see those who have let 'The Clouds In Motion'... and those > 'Giving us a good harvest of GRASS'.. speak out too. Ravi, I am not sure, but in light of my signature perhaps 'the clouds in motion'

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi List and Board, Sanghee's mail, is on the spot. +1 to Sanghee. Let us all unitedly request the Board (new+Old) alike to discuss what lead to this situation. On one hand am Happy that the most suitable people have filled the vacancies in the board. Bot on the other.. certain holes are exposed

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hello All, Thanks for your comments and sharing your thoughts through private email and this list. At first I should admit that my tone was somewhat aggressive and tough. Sorry for that. For the first point, I just wanted to have OSGeo better represent regional distributions. If new board

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi Volker, I spoke with Vicky this afternoon and even just the nomination for the Board is beginning to open doors for her locally, to help spread OSGeo to more audiences. Yes it can help, but I can see your point. I think the new formal OSGeo-Europe initiative is a good example to examine,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

I've spent much of the day thinking that I will just let this thread pass me by as I don't have the physical or emotional energy to jump into this. But I'm going to fire off an email because I'm getting angry! I would like everyone to stop denigrating our new board before they have done anything,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi Sanghee, Thanks for your well written and honest message. To your first point, I fully agree with you. We have worked so hard early on to make sure that OSGeo is a representation of all members from all around the world, and we now have a NA-Europe Board. Venka's and your efforts to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi Sanghee, On Sun, 29. Oct 2017 at 23:17:53 +0900, Sanghee Shin wrote: > One thing I'd like to point out is his un-withdrwal from board election after > disclosing the results. I also think the mid-election withdrawal was a very bad move. But the un-withdrawal is only consequent. We handled

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Hi all, I've a question in regards to how important it is to be a board member if you represent the OSGeo. I've never represented the OSGeo outside a FOSS4G and not outside of the western world. Hence I don't know how important it is to have some official title if you talk to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Dear Shangee, All, I'm sorry that some important parts of the world result under-represented. I highly value diversity and I'm sure we're loosing something here. I also recognize that there weren't many candidates from Asia, none from Africa and other parts of the world, and there weren't many

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Sanghee: I have seen online some of the reaction to the lack of regional diversity, and I thank you for bringing that to the email list for discussion. During the candidate questions there were two related questions raised: - I felt, and still feel, that the board can be selected through our

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

7 15:17 A: OSGeo Discussions Oggetto: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections Dear All, First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly elected board members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around this board elections. 1. Needless to say all new board

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

: Sunday, October 29, 2017 3:18 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections Dear All, First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly elected board members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around this board elections. 1. Needless

[OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections

Dear All, First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly elected board members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around this board elections. 1. Needless to say all new board members are deserved to win the election. However as a whole, now we have all WHITE board