[Board] 2016 Board Election announcement

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jorge,

I do not see any issue with using the existing LimeSurvey
instance on the geo-spatial.org server.

Best

Venka

On 2016/09/06 16:46, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> Dear Venka, all
>
> Apart from announcing the nominations, regarding my CRO duties I've:
>
> - Removed Vasile from the CRO alias so now any mail to "cro at osgeo.org"
> will reach myself and Jeff McKenna as a backup.
> - I've changed the password for the LimeSurvey instance so now I'm the
> only one that has access to the survey system.
>
> For the sake of transparency, just let you know that this LimeSurvey
> instance is at a geo-spatial.org server from the Romanian LC but I
> hope this is not a problem for the Board. If it is, we should contact
> the SAC urgently to deploy another instance. In my opinion it's not
> needed at all.
>
> Please if you see any issue on this or any other elections matter I
> count with your help and collaboration :-)
>
> All the best
> Jorge
>
>
> On 6 September 2016 at 08:49, Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> Hi Venka yes, I'll do it ASAP, sorry yesterday was a bit crazy and totally
>> forgot. My fault.
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>>
>
>