<div dir="ltr"><div>+1 for Maxi's suggestion.<br></div><div><br></div>Marco<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Marco Minghini, Ph.D.<br></div>GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA<br></div>Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy)<br>+39 02 23996409<br></div><div><a href="mailto:marco.minghini@polimi.it" target="_blank">marco.minghini@polimi.it</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini" target="_blank">@MarcoMinghini</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-18 14:33 GMT+02:00 Marc Vloemans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcvloemans1@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcvloemans1@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Dear Maxi, Steven,</div><div id="m_-6123929710884277616AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_-6123929710884277616AppleMailSignature">I fully agree with your suggestions. Hope the role And responsabilities of charter members can be made more valuable to the organisation. </div><div id="m_-6123929710884277616AppleMailSignature"><br>Kind regards,<br><div>Marc Vloemans</div><div><br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>Op 18 sep. 2017 om 14:23 heeft Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> het volgende geschreven:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Good suggestion Maxi, I agree<div><br></div><div>We might also want to consider whether the Charter Members should have a significant role in the governance of OSGeo beyond electing the board and being some kind of backstop in the event of a “hostile takeover”<br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 18 Sep 2017, at 13:17, Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a><wbr>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-6123929710884277616Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear All,<div>now that the official nomination period is concluded I would like to rise a question about the opportunity of having Charter member nomination just before of the Board Election with the intend of opening a discussion for the coming years.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally I think that this is very inappropriate. I would propose to run the Charter member election only after the Board member election.</div><div>Even if I'm sure that nobody did it, there is a risk of 'election' for the purpose of 'election'. </div><div>e.g.: I could virtually nominate 20 people and likely expecting they will vote form me or second all the nominations to get the favor of new members.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a potential flaws in the system from my point of view.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>maxi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-6123929710884277616gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Massimiliano Cannata</b><br><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Responsabile settore Geomatica</span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt">Istituto scienze della Terra</span></div><p style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:gray" lang="IT">Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design</span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12px" lang="IT"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#808080">Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana</font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;margin:0px"><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Campus Trevano, </span><span style="color:gray;font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">CH - 6952 Canobbio</span></div><div><br class="m_-6123929710884277616webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:gray" lang="IT">Tel. <a href="tel:+41%2058%20666%2062%2014" value="+41586666214" target="_blank">+41 (0)58 666 62 14</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:gray" lang="EN-US">Fax <a href="tel:+41%2058%20666%2062%2009" value="+41586666209" target="_blank">+41 (0)58 666 62 09</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><u><span style="font-size:9pt;color:blue" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.supsi.ch/ist" target="_blank">www.supsi.ch/ist</a></span></span></u></div></div></div>
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