[Board] [Marketing] motion: marketing committee chair

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

Haha, well said.

On 12.05.2016 20:02, Marc Vloemans wrote:

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> 
> Therefor, I am going to do it my way, guys. My time, my priorities. 
> And whoever joins in is very very very welcome! Whoever has advice 
> has both my ears and attention. Whoever has constructive criticism
> is heard. Whoever spends time is a champ and deserves the stage.
> Whoever reaps the fruits of my and others' volunteer work is quite
> welcome to it.

We call this the Do-ocrazy and it is how OSGeo came into existence and
functioned well for quite a few years. So please go ahead, it should
still work...

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Do-ocracy

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> Vriendelijke groet, Marc Vloemans

Have fun,
Arnulf

>> Op 12 mei 2016 om 18:32 heeft Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> 
>> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>> I think you're missing the historical way in which this works. 
>> Anyone can join the Marketing committee and add themselves to the 
>> list of members. Can't really recall the process for making people 
>> Voting members on $ issues.
>> 
>> Most of the existing committee members are simply to busy now on 
>> other parts of OSGeo. So by all means add new members. If you need 
>> some sort of vote to get the new Chair in, sure we can do that.
>> 
>> Thanks, Alex
>> 
>> PS: I'm mostly here to provide context on history now, these days 
>> I'm mostly doing SAC work.
>> 
>>> On 05/12/2016 01:05 AM, Marc VLOEMANS wrote: Thanks Venka,
>>> 
>>> This exercise and discussion (other thread) is actually cleaning 
>>> up the list post hoc. Which is a preferable and elegant way of 
>>> doing so.
>>> 
>>> However, without any remit to do so I am not touching the 
>>> memberlist with a barge pole out of fear of becoming the 
>>> Benevolent Marketing Dictator.
>>> 
>>> Marc
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Marc Vloemans
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 2016-05-12 9:50 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan 
>>> <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> :
>>> 
>>>> Ms. Daniele Nascimento (my former student) is also presently 
>>>> inactive in the Marketing Committee. The Committee member list 
>>>> at [1] needs to be updated.
>>>> 
>>>> Venka [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee 
>>>> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Marketing_Committee>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 2016/05/12 16:19, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all, I would like to also step back from the marketing 
>>>> committee. I can't give it the attention it needs. Cheers, 
>>>> Jeroen
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Op 12 mei 2016 om 09:10 heeft Jody Garnett 
>>>> <jody.garnett at gmail.com> <jody.garnett at gmail.com> het volgende 
>>>> geschreven:
>>>> 
>>>> I offered to join a few months ago, as has Marc, but the 
>>>> website does not reflect this - the wiki lists the following 
>>>> members: Cameron Shorter, Chair Alex Mandel Arnulf Christl 
>>>> Jeroen Ticheler Jo Cook Nicolas Bozon Peter Batty Daniele 
>>>> Nascimento
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- Jody Garnett
>>>> 
>>>> On 11 May 2016 at 23:09, nicolas bozon 
>>>> <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 30/04/2016 3:20 am, Jody Garnett wrote: To keep up with 
>>>> current events I would like to make two motions:
>>>> 
>>>> - MOT1: Thanks Cameron for his service (thank you) as 
>>>> Marketting chair
>>>> 
>>>> +1 Thank you Cameron for long and good service as committee 
>>>> chair
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> - MOT2: Accept Marc Vloeman's offer volunteer for this role - 
>>>> and nominate him for this position.
>>>> 
>>>> -0 While i warmly welcome Jody and Marc in the Committee, i am 
>>>> surprised by the lack of reaction or our committee members. 
>>>> Before pushing motions and nominating a new chair, we should 
>>>> first ensure that we have enough active voting members IMHO. I 
>>>> suggest we may postpone this motion in order to first
>>>> 'upgrade' memberships  and hopefully get a descent 'quorum'
>>>> anytime.
>>>> 
>>>> Best,
>>>> 
>>>> Nick
>> 
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