<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="">Jeff,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in the last board meeting, only 2 days ago you wrote literally:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><table style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="">14:48:11</td><td class="nick" valign="top" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">jmckenna:</td><td class="post" style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New', Courier; font-size: 0.9em;">we are running out of time</td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="">14:48:19</td><td class="nick" valign="top" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">jmckenna:</td><td class="post" style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New', Courier; font-size: 0.9em;">(as in for the 2015 elections)</td></tr><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="">14:48:24</td><td class="nick" valign="top" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">jmckenna:</td><td class="post" style="font-family: monospace, 'Courier New', Courier; font-size: 0.9em;">it must be started now</td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m still -1 on pushing this as a board decision only.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Bart</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Jun 2015, at 15:00, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Bart, it is not too late. Where did the elections dates this year on the wiki come from? My head - I knew this discussion would take time. Please check last year's dates, they were much later and tight. We have time, the dates were picked randomly by me and can be easily changed through a wiki edit.<br class=""><br class="">One month ago, if you felt so strongly about this, you could have driven this, read my email, picked up the ball, and brought it to the community.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2015-06-20 9:49 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">-1 Bart<br class=""><br class="">I don’t feel we as the board can push this without consulting the broader community on it, and it’s too late to do it for this round of elections IMHO.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Bart<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 19 Jun 2015, at 21:29, Vasile Craciunescu <<a href="mailto:vasile@geo-spatial.org" class="">vasile@geo-spatial.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">Please also vote for motion bellow.<br class=""><br class="">5) For the new charter members elections, change the threshold of required YES votes of charter members from 5% to 50%. See Jeff's e-mail [1] for detailed explanations and the rationale of this change. If needed, also check the Membership Process [2].<br class=""><br class="">My vote is +1.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Vasile<br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-May/012863.html" class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-May/012863.html</a><br class="">[2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process" class="">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 6/19/15 7:09 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear all,<br class=""><br class="">minutes from yesterday's board meeting are available at:<br class=""><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-06-18" class="">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-06-18</a><br class=""><http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-05-21><br class=""><br class="">Motions to vote on:<br class=""><br class="">1) Approve past meeting's minutes<br class=""><br class="">2) Accept OSGeo-BE as an official OSGeo Local Chapter with Dirk Frigne<br class="">as liaison officer<br class=""><br class="">3) Move along with the 2015 election process with Vasile Craciunescu as<br class="">CRO for 2015<br class=""><br class="">4) Approve to fund OSGeo President’s travel to FOSS4G Seoul including<br class="">hotel & air fares in amount of USD3,000. The topic was not discussed<br class="">during the meeting but it was already agreed in past years and the<br class="">prices (hotel, plane) can go up if we wait until the meeting in Como.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Vasile<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Board mailing list<br class="">Board@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">---------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Vasile Crăciunescu<br class=""><a href="http://geo-spatial.org" class="">geo-spatial.org</a>: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData<br class=""><a href="http://www.geo-spatial.org" class="">http://www.geo-spatial.org</a><br class="">http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Board mailing list<br class="">Board@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Board mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Board mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>