<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Fabien,</div><div><br></div><div> Your leadership and passion will be missed; but you did say that this is not goodbye so we the group will still be looking forward to your contributions, ideas, and inspiration.</div><div><br></div><div> Most of us in the group will probably agree that nobody wants to let OSGEO-Ottawa to just die out. However, your resignation and myself not being able to attend the meetings in the last few months got me thinking that we should probably re-think how we conduct "business". The model of meeting once a month in a pub, in my opinion, prevents certain groups of people from participating. I also think that a more project-based approach is more attractive so people know exactly how and when they can contribute.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Regie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Fabien Ancelin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fabien.ancelin@gmail.com" target="_blank">fabien.ancelin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi folks,<br><br></div>I have to announce that I will have to resign from my seat of co-chair of the OSGeo. <br><br></div>The
main reason for that is the fact being a part of esri Canada, and Open
Source being seen as a competitor, and can't really justify that
position any longer. <br><br>The other reason is the fact that I have
also a lot going on with side projects and life in general and I want
to give it more time than I had in the past few month.<br><br></div><div>That
does mean that I stop my involvement with OSGeo. I plan to remain an
active members as I still firmly believe there are great opportunities
and way of thinking behind OSGeo. But I can't be a leader / public
facing person any more.<br><br></div><div>I will help Javed as much as
needed with admin and organizational work in the interval for finding a
new co-chair until the end of the year 2014. But I think it would be a
good idea to have a new co-chair. I'll leave that up to a public
discussion.<br><br></div><div>Finally, I want to say that I am being
really happy with the successes this month. We need presence like that. I
am also really thankful to Christie for her demonstration during GIS
day, so @Christie, you are being missed :). Big thanks to all the one
that bring idea, especially Regie.<br><br></div><div>Keep in mind, it is
not a good bye. I remain a member of the Chapter. So you'll still see
me around, even in December is schedule allows it.<br></div><div><br></div>Cheers,<br><br></div><i>Fabien</i><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fabien Ancelin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fabien.ancelin@gmail.com" target="_blank">fabien.ancelin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 2014-11-21 22:33 GMT-05:00<br>Subject: [Ottawa_users] (no subject)<br>To: "Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List" <<a href="mailto:ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi folks,<br><br></div>I have to announce that I will have to resign from my seat of co-chair of the OSGeo. <br><br></div>The main reason for that is the fact being a part of esri Canada, and Open Source being seen as a competitor, and can't really justify that position any longer. <br><br>The other reason is the fact that I have also a lot going on with side projects and life in general and I want to give it more time than I had in the past few month.<br><br></div><div>That does mean that I stop my involvement with OSGeo. I plan to remain an active members as I still firmly believe there are great opportunities and way of thinking behind OSGeo. But I can't be a leader / public facing person any more.<br><br></div><div>I will help Javed as much as needed with admin and organizational work in the interval for finding a new co-chair until the end of the year 2014. But I think it would be a good idea to have a new co-chair. I'll leave that up to a public discussion.<br><br></div><div>Finally, I want to say that I am being really happy with the successes this month. We need presence like that. I am also really thankful to Christie for her demonstration during GIS day, so @Christie, you are being missed :). Big thanks to all the one that bring idea, especially Regie.<br><br></div><div>Keep in mind, it is not a good bye. I remain a member of the Chapter. So you'll still see me around, even in December is schedule allows it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><br></div><div><i>Fabien</i><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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