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

[Eli Adam]

Andrea,

You've been around on this list for years productively contributing to
discussion on various topics.  In my mind, that is what really makes a
committee member; meaningful participation (even if I don't always
agree with your suggestions).

+1 to formalizing your voting and official membership on the
committee.  Thanks for the previous years of contributions and looking
forward to future work.

>From time to time members recuse themselves from votes due to real or
apparent conflict of interest.  This practice has been both argued for
and against.  I assume that you'll follow whatever the norm is on that
(i.e. thinking of last year where you were involved with 2/3 bids).

Best regards, Eli


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1
>
>
>
> Steven
>
> On 24 May 2016, at 13:13, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Conference Committee,
> I'd like to propose that we invite Andrea Ross to join the OSGeo Conference
> Committee.
> +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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