[Board] Responding to emails

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Bart, wise advise as always.
Cheers, Cameron.

On 6/05/2015 4:40 pm, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hey Cameron,
>
> my suggestions would be:
>
> 1) make it really clear what your deadline is for responses (maybe 
> also use e-mail priority or something very visible in the subject in 
> case of urgency)
> 2) make it clear if you need the board to vote on something (you can 
> ask one of us to raise a motion) or you just need an opinion / opinions
>
> In the case of opinions, I normally don’t respond to something a 
> previous board member has said if I’m in general consent. If I 
> disagree or have other points, I’ll chime in, but otherwise I’ll be 
> silent.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>> On 05 May 2015, at 22:43, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> 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,
>>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>> LISAsoft
>>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>>
>>> P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com <http://www.lisasoft.com/>, 
>>>  F +61 2 9009 5099
>>
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
>> P +61 2 9009 5000,  Wwww.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099
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-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099

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