<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Answering for myself only, as Venka named me in his mail<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We currently have 16 members of the committee of which 10 or 11 are past chairs of Global events<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IMO that is a large, experienced and well resourced committee to review and choose the team for the next FOSS4G. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our newly adopted rules would allow for some additional members (2 or 3?) who weren’t past Global chairs but I don’t see any benefit from increasing the size of the committee further.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My vote would be to elect a chair from the existing members and then let the chair propose increasing the size of the committee or not.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb 2017, at 07:21, Venka <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Steven and all,<br class=""><br class="">Are we planning to fill the CC vacancies<br class="">as a result of Helena and Jeroen retiring?<br class=""><br class="">If we are, maybe we could discuss about electing a chair<br class="">after these vacant positions are filled.<br class=""><br class="">Best<br class=""><br class="">Venka<br class=""><br class="">On 2017/02/10 7:31, Steven Feldman wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If Till was prepared to step up and take the role he would be a great candidate but I would understand if he was still chilling after Bonn<br class=""><br class="">We should open this up and encourage anyone who has not chaired CC to also put their hand up. Anyone?<br class="">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 9 Feb 2017, at 11:02, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">At the moment, we don't have a chair for the conference committee, and I think that it would be good to address that.<br class=""><br class="">Would committee members like to make suggestions?<br class=""><br class="">I'd like to suggest Till Adams. Till has run a successful FOSS4G conference, I've seen him listen to people, be diplomatic, and help move ideas along. I think he'd make a good chair.<br class=""><br class="">Thoughts?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Cameron Shorter<br class="">M +61 419 142 254<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>