[OSGeo-Conf] 2012 Final Step: Voting

[Jeff McKenna]

Now we only await one vote, from Venka.  I am contacting OSGeo-JP 
members to see if he can send his vote this morning.

So sorry for this delay.

-jeff



On 11-09-10 12:15 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Still awaiting re-votes from Helena, Markus, and Venka. News shortly!!
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
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> On 11-09-02 6:22 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After some discussion on IRC, let's keep the proposed plan for a revote.
>> If it is tied we will defer the decision to the Board.
>>
>> Also, for the next RFP we will update the decision process to state that
>> if there is a tie, that the Chair be given an extra half vote to decide.
>>
>> The voting timeline is below.
>>
>> Thanks for understanding. My apologies to the Beijing and Prague teams.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11-09-02 4:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Thank you to all committee members, all the votes are now received.
>>> Unfortunately, the result is an exact tie: 7 votes for Beijing and 7
>>> votes for Prague.
>>>
>>> There is no choice now but to open the discussion/question period again
>>> (in fact from reading the submitted votes, the few public votes and vote
>>> explanations played a large part in several decisions). So now the
>>> schedule is:
>>>
>>> Additional Question period: now to Tuesday 6th
>>> Final Voting: 7th-9th
>>>
>>> Finally, I ask that your vote remain private (there was a long
>>> discussion on this years ago here and the overwhelming decision was to
>>> keep these private), but do share your questions and thoughts on this
>>> mailing list for everyone.
>>>
>>> I am sorry to not be able to announce this today, I was really hoping we
>>> could. Downside of this: even less time for the winning team to put
>>> together a presentation for the final Denver plenary.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 11-08-29 5:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>>> Thank you to both teams for answering the OSGeo Conference
>>>>>> Committee's
>>>>>> questions regarding the proposals.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would ask that all OSGeo Conference Committee members email me
>>>>>> their
>>>>>> selection privately for 2012: "Beijing" or "Prague" - please email me
>>>>>> before the end of your Thursday (Sept 1st) day. If there is a
>>>>>> majority
>>>>>> in the voting results, we'll announce the winner on Friday. Hopefully
>>>>>> this still gives the winner some time to prepare a short 'invitation'
>>>>>> presentation for the 10 minute slot in the closing plenary in
>>>>>> Denver on
>>>>>> September 16th (see Day 5: 3:30pm-3:40pm
>>>>>> http://2011.foss4g.org/program/session-schedule).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Background info:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - proposals: http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - OSGeo Committee Members:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thierry Badard
>>>>>> Arnulf Christl
>>>>>> Gavin Fleming
>>>>>> Steve Lime
>>>>>> Dave McIlhagga
>>>>>> Helena Mitasova
>>>>>> Markus Neteler
>>>>>> Claude Philipona
>>>>>> Venkatesh Raghavan
>>>>>> Paul Ramsey
>>>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>>>> Frank Warmerdam
>>>>>> Lorenzo Becchi
>>>>>> Jeff McKenna
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (I've already discussed with Peter Batty about his involvement in
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> committee after Denver)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks everyone, this is exciting!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -jeff
>>
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