<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Would it be workable to invite all past chairs to join the conference committee? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would capture their wealth of experience and would also align membership with the regions hosting conferences. Inevitably some people will not want to be involved and most will either lapse or stand down after a few years ensuring some rotation on the committee and a limit to its size<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Jan 2015, at 15:39, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">A word of advice, when I was the Conference Chair for so long, I made sure to keep the balance of the spatial distribution of members. For example, the current list of members has 8 based in NorthAmerica, and 8 based in Europe/Asia. This spatial aspect becomes very important when voting.<br class=""><br class="">Of course, I never put this into writing, but, it is something that I always made sure of.<br class=""><br class="">-jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2015-01-05 11:30 AM, David William Bitner wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I would like to make a couple nominations to the committee.<br class=""><br class="">I would like to nominate Darrell Fuhriman who did an amazing job as<br class="">chair of the 2014 global event in Portland 2014.<br class=""><br class="">I would also like to nominate Eli Adam who was also part of the 2014<br class="">Conference Committee. Eli has also shown great interest in this<br class="">committee and a clear willingness to help drive the work of this<br class="">committee forward with great attention to detail.<br class=""><br class="">Sincerely,<br class=""><br class="">David<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>