[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G North America selection process

[Eli Adam]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Andrew Ross <andrew.ross at eclipse.org>
wrote:

>  Dear Everyone,
>
> I wanted to reach out to make sure you have an opportunity to participate
> & provide feedback on the proposed FOSS4G NA governance. (see below)
>
> Also, and very important, I would like to initiate a discussion about how
> we might mesh the process when FOSS4G Global comes to North America. If you
> would, please have a look and share your thoughts, we'd be grateful. Thank
> you in advance.
>

Yes, I think we should specifically detail how international years will
work.  Here are some of my previous questions on this,
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2014-April/002552.html

The international years would continue as they always have unless changed
on this list.

Best regards, Eli




>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andrew
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------  Subject: FOSS4G North America
> selection process  Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:37:19 -0400  From: Andrew
> Ross <andrew.ross at eclipse.org> <andrew.ross at eclipse.org>  Organisation: Eclipse
> Foundation  To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, Location IWG <location-iwg at locationtech.org>
> <location-iwg at locationtech.org>
>
>
> Dear Everyone,
>
> (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to all
> interested parties)
>
> As a fairly new conference, FOSS4G North America has lacked a formal
> selection process in terms of how to select which city/venue, who was
> organizing, and more. Until now...
>
> A team of concerned people from the community including many past chairs
> of North American FOSS4G events have collaborated to draft a proposal for
> how FOSS4G North America will be governed.
>
> On behalf of the team, we would like to invite you to review the draft and
> participate in the process. The review period will last until April 29th.
> After which, we will enact the process for FOSS4G NA 2016.
>
> The governance document is available publicly here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WlgmJgtl0LaV0EO0NtDDSnloTgsIvxu9KwddPDwX1WU/edit#>.
> Anyone can comment. All discussion takes place via. a Google group here
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/foss4gna_selection>.
>
> A brief summary is as follows:
>
> The city & venue selection process will be conducted by a committee
> consisting of:
>
>    - The 3 most recent FOSS4G NA chairs
>    - One appointed representative from OSGeo
>    - One appointed representative from LocationTech
>
> The committee will select the next conference location factoring their
> votes, plus votes from attendees & sponsors from the previous conference.
> The same committee will also select the organization to run the logistics
> for the conference. The conference chair will be elected at the previous
> conference by conference attendees.
>
> If you're interested, please do join the Google group to discuss and
> participate. Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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