[OSGeo-Board] Board Nomination email (please review)

[Chris Holmes]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> On 3/3/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>Markus Neteler wrote:
>>
>>>I vote for going fast, but not hasty. I think that the membership
>>>process should be clear at least (I currently don't know if the elected
>>>members where contacted, did accept etc).
>>
>>Markus,
>>
>>I have no reason to believe they have been contacted post-vote, but
>>the intent was that their nominator contact them before nominating.
> 
> 
> Sure. But a sort of welcome letter would be cool. Maybe that's done
> already and I am simply not up to date (sorry then).
If none of us know about it, then it's probably not been done.  Anyone 
want to take a crack at drafting it?

> 
> 
>> > The main web site
>>
>>>still says "Voting for Foundation Members in Progress"...
>>
>>Well that is a problem.  I am hoping WebCOM will take more initiative
>>to keep the primary website "current" without detailed direction from
>>the board.  Daniel?
> 
> 
> Personally I would appreciate fast updating of the Web site, it's
> lagging often behind.
> 
> 
>>/me writes email to WebCOM threatening to ask to join their committee
>>if they don't hustle.
>>
>>To contact people I would like a full membership list with contact
>>info.  (Screw lat/long coordinates, if we can't even collect a list of
>>email address for members!)  Where will this list live?  If we have
>>some missing contact info we fill it out.  Should I just start it in the
>>wiki?  Would the secretary be responsible for holding this in the long
>>term?
> 
> 
> The easiest thing is to do it now in the Wiki (instead of programming
> a nice PHP or whatever form), Could be written into the "welcome to
> OSGeo" letter if not sent already.
Sounds good.

Chris

> 
> Markus
> 
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Chris Holmes
The Open Planning Project
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