[Board] foss4g europe

[Daniel Morissette]

On 13-11-19 2:58 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>
> Yes, I agree with you. I already try to work in a "liaison" way on both
> sides. We can formalize this status of mine (or anybody’s else!) on our
> next meeting (?).
>

I guess OSGeo would first need to receive a formal invitation from the 
FOSS4G-Europe LOC to join the event as partner organization and to 
appoint a liaison for the LOC.

Then we (OSGeo) would respond by appointing you.


About the rest of your email (quoted below), I'm not sure if I 
understand what you are getting at. Is it that you are not comfortable 
being the liaison, or just that you need more people from European local 
chapters for the LOC?

About a place to find good candidates, I don't think there is a perfect 
place but the conference-dev and local-chapters lists might be good 
places to start. When it is me organizing something, I look in my 
network and talk directly to the people who might be good candidates and 
check their interest to join the LOC. Then once we've found someone we 
make their role more formal.

Daniel



> I do have little problem with the community feedback - apparently I did
> not manage to hit the proper niche of people, giving feedback (even we
> did obtain several positive reactions via mailing lists).
>
> What I want to say: if we would be searching for OSGeo representative in
> the FOSS4G-Europe LOC except for myself, would conference-dev be the
> right place to go? Isn't there some better way, how to ask people, who
> want to make such type of contribution? I would like to see someone from
> not-targeted-yet (yet strong) communities being on the
> foss4g-europe-board for 2014, how could also cover the OSGeo
> representation there, like Dutch Language OSGeo Chapter, French language
> OSGeo Chapter or for example United Kingdom OSGeo Chapter.
>
> If you think, my personality is the best at the moment, I'm going to do it.
>
> Jachym
>
>
>>
>> Once again, it's a small formality, but I believe that if someone is
>> formally appointed in such a role then that may be a way to reduce the
>> chances of things falling in between chairs, and would (I hope) ensure a
>> stronger presence and visibility of OSGeo in the event.
>>
>> Note that the liaison for this or other events does not absolutely have
>> to be a member of the board. It could be any trustworthy member of the
>> community.
>>
>> Daniel
>


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