[OSGeo-Conf] Conference Committee Membership Nominations

[David William Bitner]

Cameron,

Can I take your +1's to both as a second to my nomination?

If so (or if someone else seconds the two nominations) what is our protocol
for calling for a vote?

I definitely agree with Jeff's comments and I definitely encourage the
nomination of some of the leadership from non-NA global and regional events.

David

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a lot of respect for opinions expressed by both Darell and Eli. I'm
> +1 for both joining the committee.
>
> I note Jeff's comments about regional diversity. I don't think it should
> block invitation of Darell and Eli to join the committee, but rather should
> be a reason for inviting chairs of regional events to join the conference
> committee.
>
>
> On 6/01/2015 2:55 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>> Yes, as Conference Chair that is exactly what I would do, automatically
>> invite the recent past conference chair. Nowadays we have regional events,
>> and yes they too should be represented on the Conference Committee.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-01-05 11:52 AM, Steven Feldman wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be workable to invite all past chairs to join the conference
>>> committee?
>>>
>>> It would capture their wealth of experience and would also align
>>> membership with the regions hosting conferences. Inevitably some people
>>> will not want to be involved and most will either lapse or stand down
>>> after a few years ensuring some rotation on the committee and a limit to
>>> its size
>>> ______
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 5 Jan 2015, at 15:39, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>>> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A word of advice, when I was the Conference Chair for so long, I made
>>>> sure to keep the balance of the spatial distribution of members.  For
>>>> example, the current list of members has 8 based in NorthAmerica, and
>>>> 8 based in Europe/Asia.  This spatial aspect becomes very important
>>>> when voting.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, I never put this into writing, but, it is something that I
>>>> always made sure of.
>>>>
>>>> -jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2015-01-05 11:30 AM, David William Bitner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to make a couple nominations to the committee.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to nominate Darrell Fuhriman who did an amazing job as
>>>>> chair of the 2014 global event in Portland 2014.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would also like to nominate Eli Adam who was also part of the 2014
>>>>> Conference Committee. Eli has also shown great interest in this
>>>>> committee and a clear willingness to help drive the work of this
>>>>> committee forward with great attention to detail.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
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