<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Words of Arnulf are worth their weight in GOLD.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(160, 255, 64);">more people on board who are not<br>necessarily all white, north American / European male middle agers as<br>us. Now, if all the board is of that same group it will be harder to get<br>diversified.</div><div><br></div><div>+1 many times</div><div>Ravi Kumar<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven@arnulf.us><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> board@lists.osgeo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, July 17,
2011 10:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Board] Charter members and directors elections<br></font><br>On 07/15/2011 03:25 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br>> <br>>><br>>> How many new charter members do we want to add this year? Stick with 10%<br>>> (11 new members) or go for more?<br>> <br>> I like sticking to the 10% number.<br><br>As last year I would like to suggest to extend this number and allow for<br>more new charter members. I can not see the danger of any 'evil force'<br>taking over OSGeo and it means a lot to people to be part of the game<br>right at the heart of things. At the same time we are expanding globally<br>and we would be well advised to get more people on board who are not<br>necessarily all white, north American / European male middle agers as<br>us. Now, if all the board is of that same group it will be harder to get<br>diversified. I suggest to elect up to 35 new members
(one third). If<br>there are less than those let them all in.<br><br>>><br>>> Also, does anyone have a strong objection to pushing the new charter<br>>> member election to the fall since time is a bit tight?<br>>><br>> <br>> Many community members are talking about elections. I think it would be<br>> good to get this started now (no objections here to the timeline in the<br>> wiki).<br>> <br>> -jeff<br><br>Same opinion here, we should go for it now.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Arnulf<br><br>-- <br>Exploring Space, Time and Mind<br><a href="http://arnulf.us" target="_blank">http://arnulf.us</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board"
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