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<div dir="auto">Hi Maxi,<br />
Thanks for sharing your view on this. Although I sympathize with the idea of a whole community having a say in how conference locations is selected and organized, I’m not in favor of the process you propose. Reading LOI’s and full proposals takes a lot of time and voting a lot of thought and discussion. It really helps to have previous conference organizers on the committee as well. At the same time I also think the committee should be open to other members (I used to be a member long time ago while I never chaired a conference, and I don’t think that mattered honestly). <br />
Concluding, I think selecting a conference / proposal should be taken care of by the committee, not by all charter members or the whole community. Maybe the board or the charter members should decide for an elected committee similar to what we already do with the board elections. <br />
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Jeroen</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 3 Feb 2022, 16:15 +0100, Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch>, wrote:<br />
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">why is the community left out from this decision / discussion?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The FOSS4G conference is a property of OSGeo, and therefore of the community as a whole.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The conference committee has not been elected so cannot decide in representation of the community.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">As an OPEN community I strongly believe that all the charter members (at least) should have a word or vote on such an important decision.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I hope this message is not ignored..</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 3 feb 2022 alle ore 15:04 Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> ha scritto:<br /></div>
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<div>The current FOSS4G structure has a new LOC every year starting more or less from scratch (some things like mailing lists and seed money are passed on). Over the years, many people have commented on the load of work this creates for the LOC, the general inefficiency, the risk, and the burnout. </div>
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<div>If you consider yourself a voting member of the committee (<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members</a>), please indicate your preference on this. </div>
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<div>This is an informal poll to see if the conference committee wants to:</div>
<div>1. Keep it the way it is and not change anything<br /></div>
<div>2. Change the FOSS4G organizing structure to something else (discussion of what we change it to can come later if people want to pursue this). </div>
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<div>As I've expressed several times, I prefer option 2, changing the FOSS4G organizing structure. <br /></div>
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<div>Thanks for your time and participation.</div>
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<div>Best regards, Eli</div>
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