[Board] foss4g europe

[Jachym Cepicky]

Very short back

Dne 19.11.2013 21:17, Daniel Morissette napsal(a):
> 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.

OK, will take care of it.

> 
> 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?

I all for doing it. I just think, it would be better, if it would be
someone else, since I could be considered as "captivated" (do I use the
proper word?) by some people, what I would like to avoid. I would like
to continue to be in the LOC either way.

> 
> 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.

So do I, but than some people say, the process is not open enough :-D

Just sight

Thanks

Jachym


> 
> 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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Jachym Cepicky
jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
http://les-ejk.cz
PGP: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp

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