<html><head></head><body>Cameron,<br>
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I hope it was clear that it was their choice of words.<br>
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I shared it to communicate that passion and fear are a potent combination.<br>
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And I hope with fear being discussed openly, we can address it.<br>
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Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 5, 2014 6:55:55 PM EDT, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />On 5/09/2014 11:32 pm, Andrew Ross wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> After the vote was settled, multiple people approached me, apologized, <br /> and explained they felt bullied to vote against the D.C. bid. The fear <br /> you speak of is a powerful thing. I would like to help address it if I <br /> can.<br /></blockquote>Andrew,<br />Maybe you might want to choose a more complementary term than "bullied". <br />I am a voting conference committee member. People who are passionate <br />about OSGeo and FOSS4G and their proposal talked with me prior to the <br />2014 vote about the benefits of their proposal. You were one of these <br />people (promoting D.C.). Passion is one of the great assets of the OSGeo <br />community and possibly a less derogatory term than "bully" could be <br />selected.<br /><br />(No need to respond to this, it is just a suggestion
for future).<br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>