[OSGeo-Conf] Conference Committee Membership Nominations

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 11:30:28 PST 2015


David,
Confirmed, I second both nominations.

On 9/01/2015 3:26 am, David William Bitner wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>                 <mailto: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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