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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Bart, Jürgen, All<br>
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Here's a few thoughts that are probably a good place to start. We
started to get into them at Saturday's board meeting. Feedback
here is very welcome.<br>
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1) The <a href="https://2015.foss4g-na.org/">FOSS4G North America
2015</a> site mentions the event is a collaborative event by
OSGeo & LocationTech. Is this acceptable? Yes/No <br>
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For what it's worth, our committees felt the above was totally
fine.<br>
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Just in case not everyone was aware, the Eclipse Foundation's (aka
LocationTech's) role in the event is to finance/underwrite,
organize logistics like catering/Audio & Visual/etc, develop
the web sites, handle registration, handle all the on-site
details during the event, and business development/ working with
sponsors throughout. <br>
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Our committees (Organizing & Program) are made up of people
from the FOSS4G community which transcends OSGeo, LocationTech,
& beyond. They decide the program content at arm's length and
have heavy influence over how the conference looks/feels and any
special programs we're doing such as diversity, outreach, and
social events/aspects of the conference.<br>
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2) For future global events where the Eclipse Foundation (aka.
LocationTech) provides organizing logistics as described in #1,
would the same representation on the website as #1 be acceptable?
Yes/No<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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On 17/09/14 02:29, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi Jurgen,
some of the discussions started on the conference e-mail list a while back (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/</a>) but only recently this discussion moved to the discuss list. That might explain some of the confusion.
I don’t think there is any information which is not out in the open as yet.
Andrew is best to comment on your other question, but I personally was mostly interested to see how conference organising could benefit from LocationTech’s offer to help.
No board decision has happened as yet. Normally after discussion settles in the community, the board might vote on specific motions that are brought to the table, but this step of the process has not yet been reached.
Hope this clarifies a bit, and sorry for the unsettling irritation all this has caused.
Best regards,
Bart
On 17 Sep 2014, at 10:21, Jürgen E. Fischer <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jef@norbit.de"><jef@norbit.de></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Bart,
On Wed, 17. Sep 2014 at 09:49:51 +0200, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
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<pre wrap="">can you please at least give the board a chance to form an opinion on this?
If it ever gets to the point that a motion is on the table and you have not
been persuaded, you can always vote -1.
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Did an essential piece of information not get into the open yet, did I merely
miss it or just missed to see it's importance?
Is it "just" the FOSS4G event organisation that LocationTech apparently wants
to help (more?) with or is there more?
What pending board decision is causing all this (rather unsettling) irritation?
Jürgen
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