[OSGeo-Conf] Proposal: Invite Andrea Ross, from LocationTech to join the OSGeo Conference Committee

[Steven Feldman]

I thought that had been agreed by nearly everyone who commented although there may have been one or two objections including mine. 

It seems that if you want to join conference committee there is no process or criteria, you say you want to join and then you can. Quite what happens when you go silent I don't know? Membership allows vote for location of FOSS4G which raises question about potential "packing" of vote but so far we've not had a problem so maybe not an issue. 

If Maxi wants to be a member, I guess he is one. @Maxi, feel free to add yourself to the current members list

Steven

> On 24 May 2016, at 15:19, Venkatesh Raghavan <venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016/05/24 20:13, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Conference Committee,
>> I'd like to propose that we invite Andrea Ross to join the OSGeo
>> Conference Committee.
> 
> Firstly, we need to decide on the request from Maxi to join
> the conference committee which was seconded by me.
> 
> Venka
> 
>> +1 from me, Cameron Shorter.
>> 
>> My reasoning is that Andrea has a lot of experience running conferences,
>> especially through his involvement with LocationTech, and there are
>> synergies that could be gained by aligning OSGeo and LocationTech
>> effectively.
>> 
>> I note that there have been concerns aired previously about LocationTech
>> competing to take over OSGeo's flagship FOSS4G event. I'm of the opinion
>> that we should be mindful of this, but we should discuss the options
>> openly and I believe we can find a solution favourable for all. An
>> effective way to support this conversation is to invite Andrea to be one
>> vote among our conference committee.
>> 
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>> 
>>> On 24/05/2016 6:31 am, Andrea Ross wrote:
>>> Dear Steven, & Everyone
>>> 
>>> I've not been invited to the conference committee, but I will be in
>>> Bonn, and I'm always glad to chat/meet.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Andrea
>>> 
>>> On May 22, 2016 3:04:03 AM EDT, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    Who is going to be in Bonn for FOSS4G?
>>> 
>>>    It's an opportunity for the Conference Committee and interested
>>> people to meet face to face, we could discuss some of the topics on
>>> the 'outstanding
>>> list'http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_2016_Priorities
>>> and we could start preparing the call for 2018
>>> 
>>>    Anyone interested?
>>> 
>>>    Steven
>>> 
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