<div dir="ltr">Hi <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Toshikazu, Nick,</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Despite the fact that I have not been around long enough or have not been in the right places to see directly a lot of the impact that Jeff has had on the community, it's very clear from many accounts that he has been an amazing and important figure in OSGeo (a Sol Katz award speaks very clearly to this!). However I feel remiss if I don't point out the following observation: as a newer member to the OSGeo community in the past couple of years, I've seen some intense and surprising conflict happen on the mailing lists that were centered around or included Jeff, which played out in ways that I believe were not good for community, and were also not healing in their conclusions.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If there is a custom of only speaking positively on someone's nomination thread, then I apologize. I do not want to detract from praise that is well deserved. </span></font>Is there a more appropriate place talk through, address and hopefully dismiss reservations about a nominee, and to also call for answers to the questions Cameron has posted?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Rob</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Toshikazu SETO <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tosseto@gmail.com" target="_blank">tosseto@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I also support the second nomination of Jeff McKenna.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">He think important to <span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-">friendship with all OSGeo communities, because I </span></span><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-">am proud of his philosophy.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-" lang="en"><span>I think, this thread will use comments on nominations and should not deep discuss to previous FOSS4G </span></span></span></span></span></span><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-" lang="en"><span><br><div class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-gt-baf-cell"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-gt-baf-word-clickable">circumstance</span><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-" lang="en"><span> and responsibility.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-" lang="en"><span><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-" lang="en"><span>Best regards,</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-short_text" lang="en"><span class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-"><span id="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-result_box" class="m_-7011883412562292802gmail-" lang="en"><span>Toshikazu<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div>
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