<div dir="ltr">+ 1 for Maxi.<div><br></div><div>Please do not accept Jeff's withdrawal, I hope he can join the board again and go on with all the things he did in the past!</div><div><br></div><div>Silvia</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Vicky Vergara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vicky@georepublic.de" target="_blank">vicky@georepublic.de</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">
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Open letter to Jeff McKenna.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Dear Jeff:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I am so sad about
the situation that led you to ask about the withdrawal.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">All of us, OSGeo
members, no matter the position on the organization, are volunteers.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">We volunteer our
time, our knowledge, our resources, our energy, sometimes even our
family.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">We don’t make
comparisons between the someone that took one minute to make a
contribution, with the other someone who took 5 minutes. Maybe this
last statement its not 100% true, the exception I see is when we
nominate a person for the board and we want the rest of the community
to notice the contributions that are done by the nominee.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I was the first
person to second your nomination, even when I was nominated myself,
because, I don’t see any of the nominees as opponents, I see them
as work team. From the fact that none of us participated on any
attack of any kind I deduce that we have the same view about each
other: we are a team.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">At the moment of
your nomination, I see you trying to keep up to date the OSGeo wiki
pages, twitting events, volunteering time for SAC, planning to go to
a FOSS4G, doing administration of GSoC OSGeo program, applying for
GCI program, asking for volunteers, commenting on my poster design,
making the MapServer releases, and maybe more things that I don’t
know about, but I am leaving at the end of this list: you were also
helping the CRO. <br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Because of your
extra will to help and to give more to the community, how fortunate the
CRO was to have your help for the charter member elections, specially
this year, with so many new nominated people for charter member, and how unfortunate for
you to be pointed at because of the helping inertia, keep on helping.
Even when you stepped down from helping the CRO to accept the
nomination.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I must tell you
that, not even in my wildest dreams I expected to be asked if I would
accept to be part of the board, I consider that an honor, and it
comes with a lot of responsibilities. If instead of you helping the
CRO, was me the one helping the CRO, I would have done the same, step
down to accept the nomination, basically because someone considers that my possible, non CRO, future contributions are more valuable than contributing helping the CRO.<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">One thing that
worries me is to see that helping so much, deserves an attack of such
magnitude, and if its not for your “helping the CRO” reason,
and, despite of being a reminder, the “stepping down from board
past” that was started, might have been the cheery of this sour
cake.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I don’t know about
that past, and I don’t ask, as I mentioned I have being only two
years on the organization, I only know about what I have seen during
these 2 years, and that knowledge gives me a feeling of what I want
to see in the future.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Based on what I see,
and what I can foresee with you on the board, I am not withdrawing
my second-ing your nomination made by Nicolas Bozon.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">As a person, I can
understand, and I fully support what ever decision you make/made, to keep
your mind in peace, after all things that have happened.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">There are other
things that worries me for the future:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> - Members could
refrain from nominating (or seconding a nomination) because when you
nominate a person, you never ever want the person to be treated like
that,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">- We all make
mistakes, and the fear of being overly attacked because of that speck of
sawdust, could refrain accepting the nomination.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">- Members could stop
asking about what they feel is important because they don’t know
how a question can be overly used or be considered by others.<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">This really was a lose-lose situation.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">You can be sure you
that no matter what the outcome is, because, as charter member, I
will do, within my capabilities and knowledge, what ever I can, for this kind of
situation never to repeat in the future to any of us.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Despite of being repetitive, I understand what you are going through, and you have my support and friendship.<br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">With all my respect
and admiration, your friend and colleague, <br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Celia Virginia Vergara Castillo.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">OSGeo Charter Member</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br></p>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:34 AM, 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">Dear CRO,<br>
<br>
Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election. I am sorry to cause all of the problems so clearly explained by so many here publicly this election.<br>
<br>
I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for volunteering their time for the OSGeo community.<br>
<br>
Yours,<br>
<br>
-Jeff McKenna<br>
<br>
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