[Board] President and info mail aliases

[Anita Graser]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us>
wrote:

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> Board,
> I just saw a SAC ticket disabling the OSGeo president and info mail
> aliases being closed which pointed to Jeff's mail account.
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1583
>
> It is not good practice to just disable these addresses as they are
> official contact points and broadly advertised as such.
>
> Years ago I proposed to instantiate a President Elect to back up this
> type of function and always be able to represent OSGeo but unfortunately
> we never followed up. Maybe this is a good point in time to restart this
> dialog. My proposition was to limit the president's term to two years
> and after the first year have a president elect in place so that there
> is no vacuum for situations like these.
>
> For the time being I am happy to pick up the above two aliases as
> President Emeritus until the board has sorted the situation.
>

​Thank you for the offer Arnulf!
I cannot speak for the other board members, but I think this would be a
good solution until we get things figured out.

Best wishes,
Anita
​





>
> Alternatively I suggest that the board make a quick decision who should
> receive these mail aliases (e.g. the treasurer) or at least point them
> to the private mail alias "board-priv" although people would probably
> expect the president's address to be an individual, not a list.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
>
> - --
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> http://arnulf.us
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