<html><body><div dir="ltr">I noticed when nominating folks that one of the requirements was to create an osgeo <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate">advocate</a> page?<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><div><div>Charter member candidates are asked to</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><div><div>* Add an OSGeo Advocate profile to our wiki page [4]</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><div><div>* Create a profile page in the OSGeo Wiki [5] with the 'Advocate link' pointing to your profile</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite"><div><div>before confirming the nomination acceptance.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite" dir="ltr">...</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite" dir="ltr">[4] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate</a></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote" type="cite">[5] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org">https://www.osgeo.org</a></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I think this information is duplicated by <a href="http://osgeo.org/member/jody-garnett/">member page</a>... <div><br></div><div dir="ltr">My understanding is the advocate role was coined by Cameron when OSGeo to ease the burden of president travel (especially when operating with no funds). Since that time we have set up vice-presidents in order to reduce the burden.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Q: Is the advocate page still useful? I only ask because it implies that any nominated person would be available to handle some public speaking responsibility (which is a much bigger ask then voting for board elections). </div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>- -<br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>