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<p>Dear Sanghee</p>
<p>Many thanks for your frank email. I also want to congratulate the new friends elected but, at the same time, I share your same considerations. I feel not confortable in a Board that is only, as you correctly pointed out, European and North American. That
is not becasue I don't like the current Board Members. On the opposite, they are wonderful and I love them. But there is something wrong if we missed one part of the world which before was represented and we have not added any new one.</p>
<p>With respect to point 2 of your mail, I also agree with you. It seems me not serious to change ideas every other day. Also in this case, I have nothing against Jeff, whose activism, enthusiasm and help is so important for all of us, but I can simply say
that I would not behave in this way. </p>
<p>Writing this mail was a bit tough and I thank you, Sanghee, for starting this discussion (I imagine how difficult it was by you). Sometimes we need also to discuss about weak points in the life of the Foundation.</p>
<p>Best regards and love to all of you.</p>
<p>Maria</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>Da:</b> Discuss <discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Sanghee Shin <shshin@gaia3d.com><br>
<b>Inviato:</b> domenica 29 ottobre 2017 15:17<br>
<b>A:</b> OSGeo Discussions<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections</font>
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<span lang="EN-US">First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly elected board members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around this board elections.
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<span lang="EN-US">1. Needless to say all new board members are deserved to win the election. However as a whole, now we have all WHITE board of directors only from Europe and North America. We've talked about the importance of diversity and inclusiveness many
times so far, however the reality is like this. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not writing this because of my failure in an election. Being nominated and encouragement to run the election was just great honour to me. For me as Asian, one of most shocking and
disappointing moment in this election was Venka's failure in an election. Venka has contributed so much to Asian community over the last 2 years. His contributions and activities reached out not only to Japan but also to Thailand, Vietnam, India and sometimes
to Korea as well. He also put so much efforts organizing FOSS4G Asia this year. And I know as a former board member how he restlessly carried out his duty as president of OSGeo. And finally he failed! I know he didn't answer to some of quesitons to nominees
during the election period. Ok, it</span>¡¯<span lang="EN-US">s excuse however he and I was being tied up with handling a urgent issue in community. Anyway I and other Asian friends are so shocked that he was not elected! I bet other Asian members share the
same feeling. The result gave the clear meaning to Asian community, "If Venka can't be a board member of OSGeo, nobody can be forever from Asia." I already saw many complaints and discouragement in Asian community. I believe regions other than Europe and NA
have the rights to be reprensented failry. So, I'd like to ask new board members to fix this kind of wrong representation of board configuration by adopting new election rules.
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<span lang="EN-US">2. I believe Jeff McKenna's ambiguous behaviours around election period made both him and OSGeo untrustworthy. I don't want to mention again here some of concerns over him in detail during the election. One thing I'd like to point out is
his un-withdrwal from board election after disclosing the results. Nothing personal, Jeff. Actually I tried to accept and understand this situation so many times for a couple of days, but I failed to accept. We're not the children in the kindergarten! How
can it be happened? The last thing I did as a former board member was approving the motion, "This board election is valid." I was able to block the motion however I approved the motion. Because I accepted his withdrawal as sincere one and trusted him. I'm
feeling my good intention was being betrayed. I know I don't have any rights now to change my previous decision and I don't want to criticise someone here. New board, this case cleary has shown that there's big loophole in our election process. If OSGe can't
fix it, OSGeo will lose trust and credibility. Board, you need to bear in mind that there's already bunch of sign of loosing trust from community.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Many mentioned that OSGeo is run by Do-ocracy. I believe the basis of Do-ocracy is recognizing of someone's work and trust. If someone's hardwork is not recognized and acknowledged fairy, who will want to jump into the matters to fix it?
And if someone can't trust the organization, who wants to put their precious time and efforts to untrustworthy one?</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">If OSGeo lose the trust, it will lose everything. OSGeo is just shell.
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<span lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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Shin, Sanghee<br>
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company<br>
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