<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>Hi All<br><br>"One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a<br>group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a <br>sort of global council. "<br><br>+1 for this<br><br>Gobal representation in OSGeo and the above initiative are welcome.<br><br>Ravi Kumar<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 7/16/08, Mateusz Loskot <i><mateusz@loskot.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net><br>Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation<br>To: arnulf.christl@wheregroup.com, "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org><br>Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10:22 PM<br><br><pre>On Jun 17, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:<br>><br>> On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:47, Tyler
Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:<br>>><br>><br>>> On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people<br>to<br>>>> represent the foundation, based on the merits and commitment with <br><br>>>> the<br>>>> usual free software values, rather than a geographic <br>>>> representation. Of<br>>>> course having elected people from all over the world should be a <br>>>> sign<br>>>> that FOSS4G is spreading and OSGeo is getting more and more<br>broader.<br>>><br>>> Since there are only a few open positions for board elections each<br>>> year, it will take some time to see any long term movement in<br>>> representation either way. In addition to to "merits and <br>>> commitment" I<br>>> would also add "vision" to the list of positive attributes<br>for
board<br>>> members.<br>>><br>>> One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a<br>>> group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a <br>>> sort of<br>>> global council. This doesn't have to be a new or separate mailing<br> <br>>> list,<br>>> but could be. Just having a group to go to for sharing thoughts, <br>>> ideas<br>>> and vision would be really valuable. Sound good?<br>>><br>>> Tyler<br>><br>> Yes.<br>><br>> I didn't want to let this pass uncommented. But yet again I was too<br>> elaborate and thus moved it to my emerging http://arnulf.us/Blog<br><br><br>Arnulf,<br><br>I'd love to syndicate your blog on the Planet OSGeo, however<br>I'm having troubles with getting clean and usable RSS/Atom entries :-(<br>Perhaps you wouldn't mind to fix it?<br>Certainly, my request is valid only if you would like to get
<br>syndicated :-)<br><br>Ciao<br>-- <br>Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net<br>Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>