[OSGeo-Board] Sanity Check: Confirmation of nomination to board

[Gary Lang]

This is good.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:54 PM
To: board at board.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Board] Sanity Check: Confirmation of nomination to board

Hey board, could someone give me a sanity check on the text of the email

I'm sending to our nominated committers?  And this is also an FYI to let

you know what I'm sending them.

Right now it's looking like:
Helena Mitasova
Dave McIlhagga
Jody Garnett
Jo Walsh
Michael Gerlack
Mark Lucas

am I missing anyone?  pmarc appears to have withdrawn his nominations of

Frankie, Paulo, and Hamish... I think he thought this was for 
membership, not the board?

--

Hey, I'm just doing a final check to make sure that you definitely want 
to be elected to the board of OSGeo.  You've been nominated, and your 
nominator was supposed to check to make sure that you would accept the 
nomination, but I just want to be sure that it actually happened, and 
that they warned you that board work is about 8hrs/week of work.

So this is your last chance to gracefully bow out, you can just let me 
know if you're not interested.

For a bit more about what you're getting involved in, the goals are 
found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Mission  You should 
agree with all of them, and we'll likely look for you to take a 
leadership role on at least one or two of them.  Your 8hrs a week will 
be composed of keeping up on the board email list (70-100 emails a week,

though mostly short), participating in board conference calls (they've 
been averaging close to two hours), and leading initiatives/committees 
on one or more of the stated mission goals.  It's a very exciting time, 
as we're really defining what we want this organization to be, and you 
will have a big role in doing that.  But it also is a definite time 
commitment that you should be prepared for.

Note that the next board election will likely take place in September, 
at the FOSS4G conference in Switzerland.  So this initial commitment can

be for only 6 months.  But what we decide will determine a lot, and of 
course you can go for re-election to the board.  I'm excited about your 
nomination, and potential place on the board, I think we can do a lot of

exciting stuff.  So just let me know for sure that you're able to accept

the nomination.

best regards,

Chris