[OSGeo-Conf] Nominating Cameron Shorter for membership

[Dave Patton]

On 2009/12/11 11:32 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Fellow OSGeo Conference Committee members,
>>
>> I would like to nominate Cameron Shorter for membership to the OSGeo 
>> conference committee.  Cameron was the chair of the recent FOSS4G2009 
>> Local Organizing Committee in Sydney Australia, and his experiences 
>> and insight for future events will be invaluable to us.
>>
>> I ask that all current members of the committee[1] respond to this 
>> nomination with the usual +1, 0, or -1 to indicate their position.

If I was still on the Committee, I would have voted +1 :-)

> In fact, I think that it ought to be automatic that each years
> LOC chair is added to the conference committee at the outset of the
> conference and remains on till removed or requesting to leave.

I don't think it should be automatic, but should be included in
the bidding process. Something along the lines of "when your
conference ends, we would like the LOC chairperson, or their
nominee, to volunteer to join the OSGeo Conference Committee,
with a view to remaining on the committee for at least 1 year".

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