<div dir="auto">Vasile, Thanks.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On the election, I think fair play should not be an option in our community. I hope we're not loosing respect and ethics... getting closer to politicians...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hope 2018 will be the OSGeo year of "open values" and "reach in" to remember our roots.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maxi</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 25 ott 2017 11:06 PM, "María Arias de Reyna" <<a href="mailto:delawen%2Bosgeo@gmail.com">delawen+osgeo@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Anita Graser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Thank you for your summary and assessment of the situation, Vasile! </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I am not sure I have collected my own thoughts, in the interests of meeting your request I would like to ask if the current board members are available for 14:00 UTC tomorrow.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div style="font-size:small">I can't guarantee that I'll be able to make it, but here are my thoughts:</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">1) +1 Vasile's recommendation "<span style="font-size:12.8px">to create a clear rule stating that an accepted nomination cannot be withdraw after the start of the voting period", and therefore</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2) +1 the recommendation "</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">not to admit the [withdrawal] request from Jef"</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">3) +1 "<span style="font-size:12.8px">not to start new elections" for the reasons summarized by Vasile</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Although it is true that this hasn't been very peaceful elections, I am against of restarting the elections. If this is a democracy, let us decide if we want to vote or not for someone. And if after the elections that person feels that there is too much pressure and cannot stand it, then let that person resign. And if we make a mistake and vote for someone who is a bad choice, well, we will learn and not vote for that person again, right? That's the beauty (and the beast) of the democracy. Mistakes can be made, but they are not forever.</div><div><br></div><div>And this goes also for all the people who did campaign aggresively (public and privately) against one of the candidates. It is good to ask about things that worry you and to expose what you think it is a failure. But if there is nothing on the rules that prevents that person to be elected, as it was the case (maybe because of a loophole, but rules didn't explicitly say he couldn't be elected), then that's it. There is no need to push that to the personal level. </div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks a lot Vasile for the work done. I have no doubt you did the best on this case. And I hope the new board can work on your suggestions, I think they are the right path to go. And reinforce the rules to cover extreme cases.</div></div>
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