<div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">Dear Jody,</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">at present the only strict requirement for nomination acceptance is the member profile page at OSGeo.org website. Both the section at the Advocate page as well as the Wiki are no longer mandatory (at least since 2023).</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">However, I am having trouble modifying the e-mails generated by the election tracking system. The CRO(s) are aware of this issue. Personally I am invested in solving it more broadly, possibly with a new system. But that will only be in place for 2025. </div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">Regards.</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;">P.S.: I plan to bring this matter to the board right after the election.</div><div style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, Courier New, Monospace; font-size: 14px;"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>-- <br></div><div>Luís Moreira de Sousa</div><div>Mastodon: <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@luis_de_sousa</a></span><br></div><div>URL: <a href="https://ldesousa.codeberg.page">https://ldesousa.codeberg.page</a></div>
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On Friday, 11 October 2024 at 08:20, Jody Garnett via Discuss <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:<br>
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<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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">advocate</a> page?<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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"><div><div>Charter member candidates are asked to</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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"><div><div>* Add an OSGeo Advocate profile to our wiki page [4]</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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"><div><div>* Create a profile page in the OSGeo Wiki [5] with the 'Advocate link' pointing to your profile</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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"><div><div>before confirming the nomination acceptance.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote dir="ltr" type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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">...</blockquote><blockquote dir="ltr" type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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">[4] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate</a></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" 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">[5] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">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/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">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 data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>- -<br></div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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