<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Stefano,<div><br></div><div>I share your concerns. This is the first year that this is happening, and it's not outlined at all in the request for nominations.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Stefano Costa <<a href="mailto:steko@iosa.it">steko@iosa.it</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA256<br><br>Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto:<br><blockquote type="cite">He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far.<br></blockquote><br>Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you<br>personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional<br>contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a<br>public "thumbs up session" for candidates rather than leave it to the<br>committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates<br>(there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails<br>have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the<br>discussion list).<br><br>If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I<br>apologise in advance.<br><br>Cheers,<br>steko<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a><br><br>iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQWICLAAoJEDBz7sDeHMxYyO4P/3ox0/EAhjQsW1fLX+inYO+x<br>I9sk6zMAQc4aqlcZDwd4yuDs6IWUDwnYAf7+xngy55FpnbvLGOCoQtBkDACSPjKb<br>ek+eozJhBDDL17ObvXEdalc0gHazZOkDq1G724k20Xj2XTPONyEI3nnCtYwPlWmY<br>ALtff3U3j123tYTHDTCv3dQnQjpe+9Gef2RtjoU1n3bA7JV1gcyLemG7ogx/jK+H<br>U1qH37rUqUu3F8zmjZE8pu/BKb3vUaylOEl+J9cApM9DmeegWMuHu2wcrMQKM0Vm<br>SSLheAoCL+ojfzld6kAjI+GcchAvBVhYwKJgezGqIs2NN6tPIu+ufjJI1htebqpX<br>WQzXaVPCVH0KRCLJKnp/tvt6AVnqxUTzDONjmVhyNpycznxjHEEgk6dWSHbU1RUv<br>i63Yekhpam7ApoNJprt4nZesKoztkstvU8wN78FN4t7d8YEjPPqCENgLvjvGpWVO<br>86AQnXv8yUIserQqJaQFKvaAZciqfRTbJkYesymDPKrma0j2zioSg6J6HMZN77hu<br>h1GFGS6hAkLQDKtfL4x/zhXrAwtnPYwB8uysU1EfvV4SbxXzlawVy6ZFRFwrtFOf<br>1wcbzQ+w4sNSrAmgkXmVnlS0rVNM/qK/WrJtYuInmMFuH+AJADHEBtCAz6QvYYm2<br>LaMG5i9+1Q/+oMkT8ceP<br>=n3Tv<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>