<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Daniel Morissette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmorissette@mapgears.com" target="_blank">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
While I am all for openness in general, I share Howard's concerns in this specific case and think we should continue with private nominations.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed (for what is worth). It would be sad if we started seeing sorts of "mass voting" against</div>
<div>a nomination thread, mostly because it would look a lot like a political election</div><div>(my idea of the Soul Katz Award is that OSGeo is looking for an excellence which is </div><div>not necessarily the one of just being popular, thought of course strong commitment </div>
<div>in the community has that "side effect")</div><div><br></div><div>However... maybe someone should push the OSGeo community to send private</div><div>nominations more?</div><div>I have no idea, no raw data, but in the years I have had the impression that the</div>
<div>importance of nomination period could be stressed more, thus getting more</div><div>nominations and as a result a better sampling from the community.</div><div><br></div><div>Just rambling here, don't take me too seriously :-p</div>
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