[Board] 2016 Board Election announcement

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jorge,

On 2016/09/06 15:49, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> Hi Venka yes, I'll do it ASAP, sorry yesterday was a bit crazy and totally
> forgot. My fault.

No problem. Thanks for all your hardwork in managing the Board elections.

Best

Venka

>
> --
> Jorge Sanz
>
> Sent from my phone, excuse my brevity.
>
> El 6 sept. 2016 2:29, "Venkatesh Raghavan" <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> escribió:
>
>> Hi Jorge,
>>
>> Thanks for agreeing to be the CRO for 2016 board election.
>> Can you please put the announcement below on the
>> OSGeo website and also announce on OSGeo-discuss ML.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Title: Board Member Elections Begin
>>
>> News Date:
>> 5 Sep 2016
>> Details:
>>
>> The nominations for the OSGeo Board of Directors start on 5 September,
>> 2016. Please take a minute to understand what the board actually does. A
>> director should plan to spend several hours a week on OSGeo business in
>> order to do a good job. The current board members will know best. Maybe you
>> could please also look over this page and add things that are on your
>> agenda but are not well reflected on this Wiki page.
>>
>> To nominate a candidate for the board please first confirm with the
>> person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
>> Then send an email to cro at osgeo.org CCing the candidate by 12:00 GMT
>> on Sunday 18.09.2016 consisting of:
>>
>>      name and e-mail
>>      current country of residence
>>      a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good
>>      Board member.
>>
>> Remember that only Charter Members are eligible for a seat on the
>> Board and for voting but that anybody can nominate a board member.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jorge Sanz
>> CRO 2016
>>
>>