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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I would like this discussion to not be lost, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I believe Trish has been looking at the update of the ToRs, cc-ing here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Martin <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Oceania <oceania-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Adam Steer <adam.d.steer@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 24 August 2020 at 6:27 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>John Bryant <johnwbryant@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"oceania@lists.osgeo.org" <oceania@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: OSGeo Oceania Board Terms of Reference Update for Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi John<br>
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Responding as an individual board member, mainly because these requests should never sit idle for more than a few days:<br>
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Thanks for sparking a fresh ToR discussion among the board. My feeling about the changes between v1 and proposed v2 are driven by a move from 'we are setting up...' to 'we are operating...'.<br>
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I think the most important addition is a reference to a specific code of conduct we apply to operations of both the board and things we support (the Berlin Code of Conduct [1]). Another key change is a lot less proscription about the mechanics of how conference
LOCs work ( we no longer say how an LOC should organise, just that we will support...)<br>
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Personally, I could and should have definitely paid more attention to TOR alterations this past 6 months. It's nearly coming time for an election, which will put a burner under us to get over a fire-and-covid-induced languor and make sure a few things get packaged
up.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Adam<br>
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[1] <a href="https://berlincodeofconduct.org/">https://berlincodeofconduct.org/</a><br>
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