<div dir="ltr">The OpenStreetMap Foundation recently gave Steve Coast the title of Emeritus Chairman, so they presumably felt it was a well known enough term (I've come across it in various contexts):<div><br></div><div>
<a href="http://opengeodata.org/osmf-board-grants-project-founder-steve-coast">http://opengeodata.org/osmf-board-grants-project-founder-steve-coast</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Arnulf,<br>
I love the concept you are suggesting, but question the name "Emeritus", primarily because it is a term I suspect many are not familiar with. (I needed to look it up). However looking around I can't seem to find the right replacement word.<br>
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"Honourable OSGeo Guardian" doesn't sound quite right.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 22/01/13 05:47, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:<br>
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Folks,<br>
this is a short concise summary of what an emeritus board member is:<br>
<a href="http://www.governancematters.org/index.cfm?organization_id=56§ion_id=1117&page_id=7635" target="_blank">http://www.governancematters.<u></u>org/index.cfm?organization_id=<u></u>56§ion_id=1117&page_id=<u></u>7635</a><br>
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I would like to be recognized as an emeritus board member and continue<br>
to promote OSGeo as best I can. So far I have used "I was the last<br>
president", "Ex-president", "was on the board of directors" but they<br>
all somehow have this "Ex" sound to it and compel to continue thinking<br>
"and then left because ... ?, she wasn't happy / no good / for good,<br>
because they suck, because they thought she sucks) and so on.<br>
Therefore I want to propose to have a regular emeritus status.<br>
<br>
To avoid the cons listed in the link above we can either leave it to<br>
the outgoing member to ask for it (which I herewith do) or let the<br>
current board (or maybe a charter member) make a motion to this<br>
effect. Or something else that I have not thought of, obviously.<br>
<br>
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And btw: Thanks for keeping the wheel turning. I am very happy to see<br>
that things are continuing to work well!<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Arnulf<br>
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- -- Seven of Nine<br>
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