<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">OK, having been the one that
unwittingly ‘lit the match’, here are my concluding
thoughts for use for the discussion in Seoul (and I agree with Sanghee we should end this thread!) </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1) This discussion was about the recruiting message and
signals to the world about who we are as a global community, on a critically
important venue – the flagship annual global conference, front webpage.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2) Organizations (even loose ones) do vetting of major
recruitment material to make sure the messages conveyed represent that
organization or community accurately. That’s what
some of this dialog was about. In the
future -- I throw out the idea for consideration -- that it might be useful to consider a pre-publishing comment
period of any **major** recruitment material. The goal is not to censure – but to gather reactions about message from our global, multi-cultural community and to gauge whether there are possibilities for misinterpretation -- across any culture -- and to solicit ideas on how the messages conveyed can be improved. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3) Organizers of any single conference
should have the freedom to weigh these comments and then do what they think
is right, given that particular event is representing their particular culture and area of
the world. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Two closing points.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- I do agree with one
of the last posts; in my view, in a time when the world
needs more positive global collaboration, OSGeo and FOSS4G lead the way. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- I want to publicly that Sanghee for his willingness to
listen and contemplate and again pass on my regrets that I didn’t pass on my
own personal misinterpretations of his content directly to him. He is a great example of the kind of
positive people who make up this community. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Respectfully,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Charlie Schweik</p><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
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