<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Welcome to new charter members. OSGeo will sure benefit from each one of you and your work there on.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Though officially you only decide (Vote) the board, you can steer the path OSGeo will take through active discussion. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Please join the OSGeo advocates and list all you have done and wish to do through User Talk. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Perception about where OSGeo should put it's force changes from region to region. It is no secret that The OSGeo is dominated by the mind set of the developed world, in itself there is nothing wrong. So please discuss what you think are your region's needs.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Jaya Ho OSGeo (Victory to OSGeo)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;">Ravi</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 2, 2013 6:21 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the new OSGeo Charter Members!<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
Welcome to all new Charter Members!!<br><br>On 2013/08/02 9:20, Michael Gerlek wrote:<br>> (aside: I'm not sure if Arnulf was counting the charter members'<br>> nationalities or countries of residence; if one was to count both, we'd<br>> probably be well into the 40s.)<br><br>I think, Arnulf's count was on nationalities. For example, my good <br>friend, Daniel Kastl<br>is shown to be from Germany but lives and breaths in Japan.<br><br>Best<br><br>Venka<br><br>><br>> -mpg<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)" <<a ymailto="mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org" href="mailto:arnulf@osgeo.org">arnulf@osgeo.org</a>><br>> Organization: Open Source Geospatial Foundation<br>> Date: Thursday, August 1, 2013 5:53 PM<br>> To: OSGeo Discussions <<a ymailto="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org"
href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome to the new OSGeo Charter Members!<br>><br>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>>> Hash: SHA1<br>>><br>>> Dear OSGeo,<br>>> as per Board motion [1] we have now accepted all 37 nominees into<br>>> Charter Membership [2]. Hooray! Please welcome our new Charter Members.<br>>><br>>> Thank you for the great nominations and thanks to all for making OSGeo a<br>>> sustainable Foundation.<br>>><br>>> We now have people from 38 nationalities! Even the largest group now<br>>> represents no more than a quarter of all Charter Members (the United<br>>> States with 23%). This is really good global representation.<br>>><br>>> FOSS4G is approaching [3] fast and in case you still did not book or<br>>> decide to come, it is hight time. Even for procrastination
experts.<br>>><br>>> Best regards,<br>>> Your Chief Returning Officers<br>>> Arnulf Christl & Michael Gerlek<br>>><br>>> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2013-July/011003.html<br>>> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members<br>>><br>>> - -- <br>>> OSGeo - Your Open Source Compass<br>>> http://www.osgeo.org<br>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)<br>>> Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/<br>>><br>>> iEYEARECAAYFAlH69Q4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b04bwCcD8ydj3TXgAaDAcsRqad6XrzN<br>>> h30An3OcEf+nI5BsrzBPG80TUfDzM3Fl<br>>> =Lbka<br>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Discuss mailing list<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org"
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