<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Even,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is OK by me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is good to see that these OGC Memberships are becoming so popular within our community. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It shows the value that we place in them, and from my viewpoint is very encouraging to see.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can see that this demand for the OGC memberships will only increase, so it may be prudent for us to set some ground rules for future memberships, to help us as a community to select the best people to represent us within the OGC community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At a minimum, I think that we will need to start insisting on regular updates as per the current requirements.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can anyone suggest an appropriate selection process? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do we keep the current ad hoc process, membership slot by membership slot? Or do we just call for expressions of interest once per year, with a process to fill positions that may become vacant during the year?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We do need something open, to cater for a situation where a member of the selection committee wishes to take up a membership as I recently did.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m interested in your thoughts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Sep 2017, at 23:13, Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" class="">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Arnulf/Bruce,</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">If I trust <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Membership" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OGC_Membership</a> there would one free slot of OSGeo's OGC Personal Membership. I'd like to benefit from it to take part to the works of the GeoTIFF SWG if that's possible.</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Thanks,</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Even</div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""> </p><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">-- </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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