<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey Cameron,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">my suggestions would be:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) make it really clear what your deadline is for responses (maybe also use e-mail priority or something very visible in the subject in case of urgency)</div><div class="">2) make it clear if you need the board to vote on something (you can ask one of us to raise a motion) or you just need an opinion / opinions</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the case of opinions, I normally don’t respond to something a previous board member has said if I’m in general consent. If I disagree or have other points, I’ll chime in, but otherwise I’ll be silent.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Bart</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 05 May 2015, at 22:43, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Jeff, OSGeo Board,<br class="">
I'm finding it difficult to engage effectively with the OSGeo Board
in a timely manner and am looking for suggestions on how to improve
that.<br class="">
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Is the OSGeo-Board email list still the best forum to discuss ideas?<br class="">
Would it be easier if I wrote more concisely, and less often? (Try
to increase signal-to-noise ratio)?<br class="">
Maybe limit to specific proposals: "I propose the OSGeo board
support ..."?<br class="">
Maybe not ask as much of the OSGeo Board?<br class="">
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I'm asking following on from discussion about the Open LIDAR Letter,
which had significant discussion, across a number of email lists, as
well as private discussions. I'm hoping we can learn and improve.<br class="">
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Next, I'm hoping we can finalise an OSGeo Code of Conduct /
Diversity Statement, and am interested to know whether board members
want to be involved in this? I'm hoping that there is still
sufficient energy to take this through to completion.<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Diversity">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Diversity</a><br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/05/2015 9:57 am, Cameron Shorter
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<div class="">Hi Jeff, as per below, I note that you prefer to discuss
emails in public. I'm cool with that.</div>
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<div class="">In this case, I emailed yourself, CC public board list. I
followed up with a private reminder email as I thought you
might have forgotten the email, or lost it in an email folder
somewhere. (I note you are usually more responsive).</div>
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<div class="">Thanks for responding with your thoughts. It helps to
understand where you are coming from rather than guessing to
know if you have received the email or not.</div>
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<div class="">On 5/05/2015 8:36 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote cite="mid:5547F474.3070908@gatewaygeomatics.com" type="cite" class="">As you already know (from now years of seeing
me in this position), I don't send official e-mails on
behalf of the entire OSGeo foundation because of some
offlist pings; I request that we discuss next steps (if
any?) for the Board, or that you made a request to the
OSGeo Board for next steps, and we can discuss openly. <br class="">
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-jeff <br class="">
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On 2015-04-28 5:56 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: <br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Jeff,
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Thanks for adding the cover letter to the LiDAR Open
Letter.
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The second part of this motion was for the OSGeo
President to email the
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letter to the OGC, ESRI and ASPRS. (Suggested email
addresses are toward
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the bottom of this email thread).
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Would you mind CCing a public archived email list
(probably the board
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list) so that we have an official record of the Open
Letter being
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delivered. (Alternatively, you can forward, or notify
the list instead).
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Hopefully any response you receive will also be sent to
the public list.
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If not, can you please ask if you can share the response
publicly.
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Cheers,
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Cameron </blockquote>
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Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
P +61 2 9009 5000, W <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.lisasoft.com/">www.lisasoft.com</a>, F +61 2 9009 5099</pre>
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