[Board] Fwd: [OSGeo-Conf] 2012 Final Step: Voting

[Tyler Mitchell]

FWD FYI.. Jeff's getting close to having all the votes in.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Date: September 11, 2011 6:55:19 AM PDT
> To: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] 2012 Final Step: Voting
> 
> Now we only await one vote, from Venka.  I am contacting OSGeo-JP members to see if he can send his vote this morning.
> 
> So sorry for this delay.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 11-09-10 12:15 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Still awaiting re-votes from Helena, Markus, and Venka. News shortly!!
>> 
>> -jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11-09-02 6:22 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> After some discussion on IRC, let's keep the proposed plan for a revote.
>>> If it is tied we will defer the decision to the Board.
>>> 
>>> Also, for the next RFP we will update the decision process to state that
>>> if there is a tie, that the Chair be given an extra half vote to decide.
>>> 
>>> The voting timeline is below.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for understanding. My apologies to the Beijing and Prague teams.
>>> 
>>> -jeff
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 11-09-02 4:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>> Thank you to all committee members, all the votes are now received.
>>>> Unfortunately, the result is an exact tie: 7 votes for Beijing and 7
>>>> votes for Prague.
>>>> 
>>>> There is no choice now but to open the discussion/question period again
>>>> (in fact from reading the submitted votes, the few public votes and vote
>>>> explanations played a large part in several decisions). So now the
>>>> schedule is:
>>>> 
>>>> Additional Question period: now to Tuesday 6th
>>>> Final Voting: 7th-9th
>>>> 
>>>> Finally, I ask that your vote remain private (there was a long
>>>> discussion on this years ago here and the overwhelming decision was to
>>>> keep these private), but do share your questions and thoughts on this
>>>> mailing list for everyone.
>>>> 
>>>> I am sorry to not be able to announce this today, I was really hoping we
>>>> could. Downside of this: even less time for the winning team to put
>>>> together a presentation for the final Denver plenary.
>>>> 
>>>> -jeff
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 11-08-29 5:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>>>> Thank you to both teams for answering the OSGeo Conference
>>>>>>> Committee's
>>>>>>> questions regarding the proposals.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would ask that all OSGeo Conference Committee members email me
>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>> selection privately for 2012: "Beijing" or "Prague" - please email me
>>>>>>> before the end of your Thursday (Sept 1st) day. If there is a
>>>>>>> majority
>>>>>>> in the voting results, we'll announce the winner on Friday. Hopefully
>>>>>>> this still gives the winner some time to prepare a short 'invitation'
>>>>>>> presentation for the 10 minute slot in the closing plenary in
>>>>>>> Denver on
>>>>>>> September 16th (see Day 5: 3:30pm-3:40pm
>>>>>>> http://2011.foss4g.org/program/session-schedule).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Background info:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - proposals: http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - OSGeo Committee Members:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thierry Badard
>>>>>>> Arnulf Christl
>>>>>>> Gavin Fleming
>>>>>>> Steve Lime
>>>>>>> Dave McIlhagga
>>>>>>> Helena Mitasova
>>>>>>> Markus Neteler
>>>>>>> Claude Philipona
>>>>>>> Venkatesh Raghavan
>>>>>>> Paul Ramsey
>>>>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>>>>> Frank Warmerdam
>>>>>>> Lorenzo Becchi
>>>>>>> Jeff McKenna
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> (I've already discussed with Peter Batty about his involvement in
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> committee after Denver)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks everyone, this is exciting!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -jeff
>>> 
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