<div dir="ltr">Thanks Vasile & Jeff:<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">In today's osgeo meeting we discussed how to handle nominations that are light on details (some nominations only work if you know the person).<div><br></div><div>Can I ask the people who have seconded a nomination with a "+1" to provide additional details on what positive attribute the candidate displays in the our community to be considered as a charter member.</div><div><br></div><div>For reference here is the <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes" target="_blank">positive attributes</a> list from the membership process page:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><i>Recommended membership selection criteria include:</i></blockquote><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software, education and data in a collaborative manner.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>The person should already have made a contribution to free and open source geospatial software, education or open data.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the Foundation going.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.</i></li></ul></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><i>Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:</i></blockquote><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions, diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g., corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><i>Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including gender and race </i></li></ul></div><div>Thank you to everyone taking part in the nomination process, it is great to see our community growing!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><div><div class="m_-1661335508339765431gmail-m_2162767664379488300gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small">--</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_-1661335508339765431gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 September 2017 at 13:44, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everyone!<br>
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A reminder that today is the last day for nominations, so that means "anywhere on Earth" today you can still submit nominations to <a href="mailto:cro@osgeo.org" target="_blank">cro@osgeo.org</a> Note that we will accept *confirmations* from these nominees for another 24 hours after that (each nominee must accept the nomination by replying to our direct message).<br>
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Thanks all! It's been great to see the passionate leaders from all over, supporting OSGeo.<br>
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-Vasile & Jeff<br>
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On 2017-08-27 11:19 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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I would like to remind you that the rules/steps for 2017 OSGeo new charter members nomination[1] are described in the Membership Process wiki page[2]. To summarize, if you want to nominate a person you should:<br>
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1. confirm with the nominated person first;<br>
2. email <a href="mailto:cro@osgeo.org" target="_blank">cro@osgeo.org</a> with their name, contact email and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member;<br>
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The CRO will verify with the nominee that they are willing to stand for nomination and then will send the nomination to <a href="mailto:discuss@osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@osgeo.org</a>.<br>
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I'm sending this reminder because some nominations did not follow those steps. More specifically, some nominations were sent directly to this list, CC-ing or not the CRO. All those nominations and the seconded votes will be considered after nominee confirmation to the CRO that is willing to stand for nomination (confirmation emails already sent by CRO).<br>
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Best,<br>
Vasile & Jeff (your 2017 OSGeo Elections CROs)<br>
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[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/El<wbr>ection_2017</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Me<wbr>mbership_Process</a><br>
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