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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sanghee, +1<o:p></o:p></span></font></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you for your frank discussion.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Your sincere words are dearly needed to be heard.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The behavior leading to the chaos of recent events, apparently not unique, should not be ignored.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Even more difficult to address are the one-sided results in light of our larger body, as you have generously described.
To add a bit of ‘jocular noire’, do consider the difficulty our poor planet is having with election results worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank you much for these beautifully expressed thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Sanghee Shin<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 29, 2017 3:18 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> OSGeo Discussions<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [OSGeo-Discuss] My feelings about board elections<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">Dear All,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">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 lang="KO">’</span>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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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">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?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">If OSGeo lose the trust, it will lose everything. OSGeo is just shell.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Malgun Gothic"><span lang="KO" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:KO">신상희</span></font><span style="mso-fareast-language:KO"><br>
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Shin, Sanghee<br>
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company<br>
<a href="http://www.gaia3d.com">www.gaia3d.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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