[Board] Responding to emails

[Jeff McKenna]

Cameron,

I find these 'responding to emails' very disrespectful.  Imagine the 
time we all put into OSGeo.  How dare you suggest that I do not answer 
emails in a timely fashion (Your emails on this started on friday and 
continued all weekend!).

That said, to answer your question: please do continue to share your 
feelings on the OSGeo Board list, to the Board of directors.  It is 
definitely the best way to contact the Board.

-jeff



On 2015-05-05 5:43 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Jeff, OSGeo Board,
> I'm finding it difficult to engage effectively with the OSGeo Board in a
> timely manner and am looking for suggestions on how to improve that.
>
> Is the OSGeo-Board email list still the best forum to discuss ideas?
> Would it be easier if I wrote more concisely, and less often? (Try to
> increase signal-to-noise ratio)?
> Maybe limit to specific proposals: "I propose the OSGeo board support ..."?
> Maybe not ask as much of the OSGeo Board?
>
> I'm asking following on from discussion about the Open LIDAR Letter,
> which had significant discussion, across a number of email lists, as
> well as private discussions. I'm hoping we can learn and improve.
>
> Next, I'm hoping we can finalise an OSGeo Code of Conduct / Diversity
> Statement, and am interested to know whether board members want to be
> involved in this? I'm hoping that there is still sufficient energy to
> take this through to completion.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Diversity
>
> On 5/05/2015 9:57 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Hi Jeff, as per below, I note that you prefer to discuss emails in
>> public. I'm cool with that.
>>
>> In this case, I emailed yourself, CC public board list. I followed up
>> with a private reminder email as I thought you might have forgotten
>> the email, or lost it in an email folder somewhere. (I note you are
>> usually more responsive).
>>
>> Thanks for responding with your thoughts. It helps to understand where
>> you are coming from rather than guessing to know if you have received
>> the email or not.
>>
>> Regards, Cameron
>>
>>
>> On 5/05/2015 8:36 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> As you already know (from now years of seeing me in this position), I
>>> don't send official e-mails on behalf of the entire OSGeo foundation
>>> because of some offlist pings; I request that we discuss next steps
>>> (if any?) for the Board, or that you made a request to the OSGeo
>>> Board for next steps, and we can discuss openly.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-04-28 5:56 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>> Thanks for adding the cover letter to the LiDAR Open Letter.
>>>>
>>>> The second part of this motion was for the OSGeo President to email the
>>>> letter to the OGC, ESRI and ASPRS. (Suggested email addresses are
>>>> toward
>>>> the bottom of this email thread).
>>>>
>>>> Would you mind CCing a public archived email list (probably the board
>>>> list) so that we have an official record of the Open Letter being
>>>> delivered. (Alternatively, you can forward, or notify the list
>>>> instead).
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully any response you receive will also be sent to the public
>>>> list.
>>>> If not, can you please ask if you can share the response publicly.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Cameron
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter,
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