<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Congrats to the two new board members. Hope we can strengthen OSGeo, to spread into the developing world, where it is needed most.<br>Ravi Kumar<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 27/8/10, Venka <i><venka.osgeo@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Venka <venka.osgeo@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: OSGeo Board Election 2010 Results<br>To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org><br>Date: Friday, 27 August, 2010, 1:53 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Congratulations to the re-elected and new<br>OSGeo Board Members.<br><br>Best<br><br>Venka<br><br>On 2010/08/27 15:53, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>><br>> Paul,<br>> thanks again for organizing the board elections. It is
great that we<br>> could get this done in time prior to FOSS4G so that the new board can<br>> meet there in real life. This promises to become a very productive meeting.<br>><br>> Howard, Ari,<br>> thanks to both of you for serving on the board for two full years and we<br>> hope to continue to see you give advice to the OSGeo board in your<br>> specific domains. We will lack the European and education background of<br>> Ari and miss Howard's direct engagement from our systems committee.<br>><br>> Tim and Daniel,<br>> welcome to the board and be prepared for lots of activities in the<br>> coming months. We need to look into funding and acquire new and more<br>> sponsors. The local chapters of OSGeo are developing great but many<br>> would like to see a closer relation to the OSGeo Foundation. The public<br>> geodata committee is developing interesting ideas around cataloging that<br>> could turn into a new
OSGeo service and last but not least we will want<br>> to improve the incubation process to better serve the projects and the<br>> users.<br>><br>><br>> All,<br>> thanks all for trusting me with another term on the board of directors<br>> and I am excited to get going with the new team. See (hopefully most of<br>> you) in Barcelona.<br>><br>> Best regards,<br>> Arnulf.<br>><br>><br>> Paul Ramsey wrote:<br>>> OSGeo,<br>>><br>>> Here are the final results from the 2010 voting for the open seats of<br>>> the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were four seats open and they have<br>>> been filled by, in alphabetical order:<br>>><br>>> * Arnulf Christl<br>>> * Daniel Morissette<br>>> * Frank Warmerdam<br>>> * Tim Schaub<br>>><br>>> Thanks to everyone for running. The voting participation was 82% and<br>>> there were no tie scores to
arbitrate.<br>>> Your complete resulting Board is:<br>>><br>>> * Arnulf Christl<br>>> * Chris Schmidt<br>>> * Daniel Morissette<br>>> * Frank Warmerdam<br>>> * Geoff Zeiss<br>>> * Jeff McKenna<br>>> * Markus Neteler<br>>> * Ravi Kumar<br>>> * Tim Schaub<br>>><br>>> We will complete the 2010 election process with the selection of new<br>>> Charter Members in September after FOSS4G.<br>>><br>>> Yours,<br>>><br>>> Paul Ramsey<br>>> 2010 Returning Officer<br>><br>><br>> - --<br>> Arnulf Christl<br>> President OSGeo<br>> <a href="http://www.osgeo.org" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org</a><br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)<br>> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a><br>><br>>
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