<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:59 PM María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi!</div><div><br></div><div>Take into account that Malena and me will (probably?) join the committee at the end of the year. Would that be enough to cover your part?<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Hi Maria (and Melena), <input name="virtru-metadata" type="hidden" value="{"email-policy":{"state":"closed","expirationUnit":"days","disableCopyPaste":false,"disablePrint":false,"disableForwarding":false,"enableNoauth":false,"persistentProtection":false,"expandedWatermarking":false,"expires":false,"isManaged":false},"attachments":{},"compose-id":"3","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"></div><div><br></div><div>That's exciting for you to be joining soon! I see the formal membership of the conference committee limited to reading and voting on RFPs and letters of intent and asking helpful questions if needed. Generally that doesn't take much time and effort. There are numerous people who to varying extents complete that function and I think that function is adequately covered. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I see the most important involvement in the conference committee to not depend on formal membership. I would hope that the committee would recognize someone doing this work with formal membership as well but don't see that as strictly required and the committee has a history of being open to ideas, discussion, proposals, and work completed by non-(formal)members. The more important involvement in the conference committee is general housekeeping (writing and running the conference RFP, managing votes, keeping our records (SVN, wiki, etc), being mindful of keeping our processes operating at least semi-smoothly, helping coordinate cumbersome projects from their initial idea to formalized, smoothly running programs [like the travel grant program], remembering our history and being able to find it, helping newer members learn how the committee operates, knowing how the different parts of OSGeo interrelate and how to coordinate with SAC, Board, others, and more, and hopefully sticking around for several years and trying to pass it on to future people, etc). As far as I can tell, most of the formal members of this committee are not interested in those aspects. In short, the grunt work of the committee. Perhaps this is why no one is interested in it (or few are interested in it)? Have I phrased it in an appealing enough manner to interest you? All the formal members can chime in that they are interested as well too. <br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 12:18 AM Luca Delucchi <<a href="mailto:lucadeluge@gmail.com" target="_blank">lucadeluge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Eli,<br>
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 00:25, Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" target="_blank">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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I'm interested but I think this not the right moment for me, let's see<br>
how will goes the Florence proposal<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Luca, </div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck with the Florence proposal, that will keep you busy for a while. Looking forward to a future time when it may be the right time for you. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, Eli</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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