[Board] Motion: Award FOSS4G2010 Conference Hosting to Barcelona, Spain team

[Arnulf Christl]

Hi all,
I believe that we actually do quite well, 8 out of 9 directors responded within a mere 11 hours after the motion has been sent, this is way better than "just good". Hey, we live on a ball with different time zones and all...

I just got Jo on the phone and she will send an email today.

Thanks,
Arnulf

PS:
>From my experience at OGC I can confirm that email votes can be a real pain. But when it comes to the people on the OSGeo board it seems that we are all so highly available via all kinds of channels that if anybody at all can manage to make an email vote in time then it is probably us. Having said that I will be offline for the better part of the next six weeks. So better don't wait for me then :-)

Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would think that at least one of us has Jo's telephone number and 
> could give her a call? I don't have it, but it would make sense. I 
> assume she's not holding back her vote on purpose.
> Ciao,
> Jeroen
> 
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> 
>> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Frankly, it is very difficult to get motions passed quickly by email 
>>> which
>>> is why I generally avoid them.
>>
>> I was surprised that this motion was happily accepted by board members
>> as email motion. We are not used to it and will probably never get the
>> required support of *all* board members (be one of them ill/offline/kids/
>> whatever).
>>
>> If the missing vote doesn't come in (there was no deadline for this 
>> motion)
>> it needs to be put on the January agenda anyway. Indeed, despite one
>> bidding group being earlier happy, it does not make a big difference to
>> have the result in the beginning of January (talking about FOSS4G 2010
>> here).
>>
>> At least a board member/ExecDir should officially close the motion...
>>
>> I already expressed some of above to Arnulf in an offlist mail, but 
>> thought
>> to partially repeat it here.
>>
>> Markus
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