<div dir="auto">I would vote for some modest changes. I think that the LOC is what drives the the vibrancy and unique nature of the event. I do think that added support that does not change year over year in the form of staff or contracted services to provide consistency and professional organization support would be of huge benefit.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 8:04 AM Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all (particularly voting committee members),<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":"7","compose-window":{"secure":false}}"><div><br></div><div>The current FOSS4G structure has a new LOC every year starting more or less from scratch (some things like mailing lists and seed money are passed on). Over the years, many people have commented on the load of work this creates for the LOC, the general inefficiency, the risk, and the burnout. </div><div><br></div><div><div>If you consider yourself a voting member of the committee (<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members</a>), please indicate your preference on this. </div><div><br></div></div><div>This is an informal poll to see if the conference committee wants to:</div><div>1. Keep it the way it is and not change anything<br></div><div>2. Change the FOSS4G organizing structure to something else (discussion of what we change it to can come later if people want to pursue this). </div><div><br></div><div>As I've expressed several times, I prefer option 2, changing the FOSS4G organizing structure. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your time and participation.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, Eli</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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