<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Chris, </div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Appreciate the kind offer to use the board list.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">I think a separate list for ex board members makes sense for a couple of reasons.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">The board list should be primarily for the elected board. The ex-board members are not shy and we certainly would chime in where appropriate for board list discussions. Ex-board members need a place to go when they step down - I'm sure that we will all respond if you need our assistance in any area - but I think that we should be very conservative and avoid any confusion on who speaks for the board.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Consider us envoys for special missions, advisors when needed - and above all, supporters for the current leadership team</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Besides, I think we should have special badges :-) Maybe our portraits should adorn a virtual hallway somewhere...</div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; ">Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:39 AM, <a href="mailto:christopher.schmidt@nokia.com">christopher.schmidt@nokia.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Sep 13, 2010, at 7:01 AM, ext Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Was great to meet up with board past and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">present. Particularly wonderful to meet<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mark and Jo from the board that I served.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 2010/09/13 19:46, Markus Neteler wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mark Lucas<<a href="mailto:mlucas17@mac.com">mlucas17@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">...Count me in, I'm<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">hoping to have more time to re-engage. At the very least, we could gossip<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">about how we used to do it in the old days..... I nominate Venka to lead<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">us....<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Mark<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'd like the idea of an extra "advisory board of former directors" who<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">volunteer<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">to participate and offer their opinions on the actual work to be done by us<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">board members.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We can get started with having a mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:ex-board@lists.osgeo.org">ex-board@lists.osgeo.org</a>. I would prefer this<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">list to be private so have more fun and gossip.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If most of the ex-board active on this list, I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">would like to request Frank or someone in SAC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to kindly create the list for us.<br></blockquote><br>I guess I'm confused; why is the board list itself not an appropriate venue<br>for this kind of discussion?<br><br>All members of the OSGeo community are welcome to participate here, and I think<br>that the ex-board members hold a significant amount of impact and sway in<br>the community -- otherwise they wouldn't have been on the board to begin with.<br><br>Encouraging ex board members to remain on the board mailing list and<br>offer their advice at any point seems perfectly reasonable and wise to<br>me. On the other hand, hosting a private mailing list for ex-board members<br>seems unnecessary to me. <br><br>If someone can explain to me why the board list itself is not an ideal<br>venue for this, I am interested to hear.<br><br>-- Chris_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>