one comment for Jorge, and one for Jeroen - and a "half a suggestion" (food for thought)...<br><br>please see below...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/13 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas <<a href="mailto:xurxosanz@gmail.com">xurxosanz@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/6/13 Jeroen Ticheler <<a href="mailto:Jeroen.Ticheler@fao.org">Jeroen.Ticheler@fao.org</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi all,<br>......<br>
><br>
> So my call upon the community: forget about geographical representation as a<br>
> driving factor or political means in discussions or voting! My email gets to<br>
> you if I would send it from Khartoum in the same way it does now that I'm<br>
> sending it from Rome. Do you care? Or instead do you care about the content?<br>
> Focus on the last when voting; what is the added value of that person as a<br>
> board member to you.<br>
><br>
> Ciao,<br>
> Jeroen<br>
><br>
......</div></div><br>
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But, from the Spanish Language LC point of view, I wouldn't be happy<br>
if no one from South America is elected for the PSC (or whatever name<br>
we decide to the committee) because my wish is that this LC gets<br>
involved all the Spanish spoken world. But of course if we are not<br>
able to convince people from South America to participate on the<br>
community and we don't have people really working with the LC<br>
activities, is normal that no one would be elected by the majority.</blockquote><div><br>1) Jorge - if I am a Norwegian citizen with a Korean mother and I live in Egypt and I am elected on the board, I would be capable of doing a lot for the promotion of FOSS in South America....<br>
<br>...This will happen if I relate to South America and I like it (its culture, its people, its language(s) etc.).<br><br>So I can reinforce Jeroen's statement: let's ignore geography in representation in the "traditional" sense.<br>
<br>Actually: I can confirm that similar dynamics are happening in other communities I know ;)...it can get confusing at times, but it can work.<br><br>2) Jeroen - having some "homogeneous spread" of representation might still have a sense for issue like optimisation of travel costs to insure that the board can be present in specific areas around the globe, or other issues of this kind<br>
<br>3) ...in this respect, I am taking the opportunity of the message to ask to people who would be somewhere around Italy between August and September: would it make sense to have some pre-FOSS4G round-up in Europe <br><br>
...I could have said Antarctica...but I expect to be in Italy in that period)? <br><br>....no official-formal-meeting: simply a gathering of those who already happen to be close in space, at a given moment in time, and with the possibility of repeating such an event when it is colder....<br>
<br>let's say...Southern Tuscany/hills+seaside...mid-September ?<br><br>regards,<br><br>andrea, aka pibinko<br><a href="http://www.pibinko.org">http://www.pibinko.org</a><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Regards<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas<br>
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía<br>
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