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

[Daniel Brookshier]

The site was updated last night with the member list. It is linked  
with in the About on the left. The final page is https:// 
www.osgeo.org/content/governance/foundation/members/membership.html

Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
214-207-6614

On Mar 3, 2006, at 12:21 PM, 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).
>
>>> 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.
>
> Markus
>
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