<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Jody,<div><br></div><div>I’m sorry to disagree so strongly, but i see this is as a severe issue that dramatically needs to be resolved with haste.</div><div><br></div><div>As a past (co-)chair of a global FOSS4G, i know the focus is to ensure that funds are raised and the delegates and sponsors are clear on the offering. Right now, this isnt the case as that site does look like Halifax is the host, not Calgary. </div><div><br></div><div>I would strongly urge the Board to take immediate action to ensure that people are as clear as possible on what is being offered. The domain is the first step to this. </div><div><br></div><div>There are many reasons why time has been taken to resolve this - and as someone who spent the first half of this year quite ill and dropped many balls - I can understand this...! But, we’re less than a year away, so let’s work on resolving this as quickly as possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark <br><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 1 Dec 2019, at 22:28, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">k<div><div dir="auto">We do not maintain copyright on foss4g, this is a deliberate choice as I understand it. So I do not think we can ask the ca domain to intervene.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As for Jeff being unavailable we like to respect folks volunteer capacity and ability to contribute when they have time. We have spent some effort working around his in availability as a board. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is worth bringing this up with the next board meeting. Indeed it may be appropriate to go about claiming the foss4g trademark. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 11:39 PM Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Jody<div><br></div><div>Is this a case where the board is the committee that needs to act?<br><br><div dir="ltr">Regards<div>Steven</div><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>+44 (0) 7958 924101</span></div><div><div><span>Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 1 Dec 2019, at 20:01, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">We do not need a procedure for everything, some troubles will just need to be handled if they occur.<div><br></div><div>I do not intend to dismiss your interest, osgeo committees are empowered to act and remove individuals who are not welcome. Indeed we ask that all committees / projects / events have a code of conduct.</div><div><div><br></div><div><div>In the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/7/7d/Face_to_Face_Meeting_2019_Bucharest.pdf" target="_blank">August F2F</a> meeting we discussed establishing a black list for individuals who are not welcome at our events, and a "gray list" for individuals who we "wanted to talk with" before they attended one of our events again. The kindest way we could think to handle this is to ask the individual to sign a the code of conduct (so there could be no miscommunication with respect to behaviour).</div><div><br></div><div><div>Individual committees can also control their membership with a motion, projects can adjust an individuals commit access, and so forth. To specifically answer your question the board is in position to update the charter members list (and is supposed to do so as a result of inactivity).</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 at 20:08, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Haven’t seen a response yet and I note that as of now the <a href="http://foss4g.ca" target="_blank">foss4g.ca</a> site is still up. That is disappointing to say the least.<div><br></div><div>I have copied in Karine Jean who was the co-chair of the Halifax bid using the email on her OSGeo listing, perhaps she can remove the Halifax site or ask Jeff to do so or explain why they think it should remain almost a year after the decision was made to award to Calgary not Halifax?</div><div><br></div><div><b>A question for the board</b>: Do we have any procedure for revoking Charter Membership in the event of behaviour that we consider to be in conflict with OSGeo principles? I am not suggesting that this is the case re Halifax web site but I think it prompts the question of what would/should we do if a CM is considered to have possibly gone rogue?<br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 29 Nov 2019, at 22:14, Jonathan Neufeld <<a href="mailto:jneufeld@tecterra.com" target="_blank">jneufeld@tecterra.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi All,<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I apologize for sending this through the Conference_Dev list, however I’ve been trying to reach Jeff McKenna for the past month with no success. If I am out of line here, please let me know.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jeff - I’m following up again on my request to take down your Halifax FOSS4G site at<span> </span><a href="https://foss4g.ca/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://foss4g.ca/</a>.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As I have previously mentioned, the Halifax site is causing confusion with some members of the community.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In the spirit of open collaboration and building towards a successful event, we are<span> </span><b>requesting that you take down the site for Halifax 2020 which is making a false claim of hosting FOSS4G 2020 and sowing confusion amongst potential participants.</b><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Regards,<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jon<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">JONATHAN NEUFELD<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">CO-CHAIR<span> </span></span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,32,96)">FOSS4G 2020 CALGARY</span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://2020.foss4g.org/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://2020.foss4g.org/</a><u></u><u></u></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Conference_dev mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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