[OSGeo-Conf] some decisions in the pipe
Till Adams
till.adams at fossgis.de
Tue Jan 23 11:49:52 PST 2018
Dear David,
but I guess that here (as so oten) communication is the key. If I'd
received a clear statement "sorry Till/CC, I will not make it this year"
that would help a lot. In case for this, we could change the number of
votes in advance and don't get the danger of not having a quorum ;-)
Reagrds, Till
Am 23.01.2018 um 20:27 schrieb David William Bitner:
> My apologies for not replying. I have been very busy as-of-late,
> traveling during both vote periods and did not have time to do a
> thorough review of the proposals and as such did not vote on the RfPs.
>
> I am happy to step aside from the committee if that is the direction
> that this group would like to take for members who may not be able to
> engage every year, but to my opinion, we bring folks onto this
> committee because of their experience and trust that we have in them.
> Part of that trust is that they will act only when they can give the
> proper due diligence. I would like to stay engaged with this committee
> (and will regardless of if I am a voting member) but cannot commit
> that I will be able to do appropriate due diligence each year, and in
> the case that I cannot I will not vote.
>
> I see very little problem in having a large committee here and in fact
> think that as long as we are very deliberative on who we bring in,
> having a large committee can help to mitigate that not everyone is
> going to be willing or able to spend the time each and every year
> reviewing proposals.
>
> I absolutely and enthusiastically second the nomination of Guido and
> Michael. I also support the nomination of Gerald and believe that
> getting more regional chairs involved and trying to bridge the brick
> wall that seems to exist between how we look at the regional events
> and the "Big Show" can only help us be more strategic and reach out to
> more people, companies, business sectors, and different parts of the
> world.
>
> David
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:
>
> Hi Conference comittee,
>
> this is a general reminder on some decisions/discussions, that I
> have on
> my list we have to talk about in the following weeks. This email
> serves
> just as a general list-up with the hope, that you'll find some time to
> think about some of my issues. If you have your own things to
> bring in,
> feel free to share!
>
> I will list these points as seperate issues below and would be
> happy if
> we start a discussion:
>
> 1. Voting Members
>
> For the last RfP, where we nominated Bucharest as venue for the 2019
> conference, we had a weak quorum, because quite some members did not
> vote. I sent out personal emails to the non-voters and received
> feedback
> from 3 of the 5 non-voters. These 3 excused themselves, they had
> reasons
> and they are willing to stay on board and that makes me happy.
>
> Leads me to the question, that I still did not get any feedback
> from the
> other 2. Now it's already some weeks ago that I contacted them,
> including a remembering mail.
> I don't know if we have an official trial to rule out people and
> personnally I wouldn't like to do that, because I know at least one of
> the 2 personally.
> On the other side, we can't be sure, that they will appear back once
> upon a time. Not re-appearing means that we have to fear more weak
> quorums in the future.
>
> Issue 1: How do we act here?
>
> This directly leads me to question 2: I will nominate Guido Stein and
> Michael Terner as new members for the CC later. I think as former
> chairs
> of a successful global FOSS4G conference, it is without question
> clear,
> that we need them as new members in CC. Also there was a request of
> Gerald Fenoy back this summer, where he asked for participation as
> member.
> I am little unsure here, because I fear, that we will have a huge CC
> within a few years, when we also nominate all past chairs of regional
> events. In my eyes (without rating!!!) organizing a regional event
> is a
> cmletely different game than having a global FOSS4G. And our job is to
> vote on proposals for global conferences venues. On the other side, of
> course, having some more active members inside CC wouldn't be the
> badest
> idea.
>
> Issue 2: Accept nomination of Gerald Fenoy (and potential other
> regional
> chairs?) ?
>
>
> 2. Voting process
> We discussed to alter the voting process, so that for step 1 (LOI
> acceptance) of the RfP 2019 we had this new "thumbs up"/"thumbs down"
> vote. I will soon call for a vote, whether we want to keep this
> procedure or go back to the old "one vote per member" also for step 1.
>
>
> 3. Bid process
> I do not know, how you felt in the last RfP. I had problems in
> comparing
> the two proposals, because one of them was very close to the draft we
> gave out and the Sevilla one was, let's say, "freely interpreted" ;-).
> I don't want to limit the teams' individual imagination, but
> perhaps it
> would be easier for comparing the proposals, if all proposals
> would have
> the same agenda. This also would save the teams from spending
> money on a
> marketing agency for layout things (I do not want to impute, that this
> happened in 2019, but this *might* happen in the future in order
> to put
> one proposal in a better light). I wil call for a vote on this issue
> soon as well.
>
>
> So far, have a nice day!
>
> Till
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