<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Vicky Vergara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vicky@georepublic.de" target="_blank">vicky@georepublic.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello all, Gret-Jan</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In my view section of my manifesto I mention OSGeo is here to serve the people of the world.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">People in the world are Geographically distributed, have different cultures and using some number about the languages, for example, only in Mexico there are around 60+ languages and 6000+ languages around the world.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So, we are here to serve the people regardless of the Geographical diversity, culture diversity, DNA diversity, gender diversity, political diversity, religious diversity.</div><div><br></div><div><div>I
don't think that is compulsory to have a representation of every
continent/country/language/<wbr>DNA/gender on every cycle of the Board, but I
think it would help if from time to time the diversities are also
represented.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope the above answers your question. And I also hope that the following raises some internal questions:<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I will talk about what I know:</div><div> Spanish is the second most spoken language on the world (first is mandarin) and is the official language of 20 countries, 19 are located in Latin America 1 is located in Europe.</div><div>Since OSGeo started there has not being a person in the Board from any of those countries. [1]</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Am I confused or wasn't Jorge Sanz part of the board a few years ago? </div><div><br></div><div>Not that I want to break your argument, you are right in everything else, we (spanish-speaking) are very misrepresented considering how many we are on the day to day work. And having a Spanish-speaking chapter is like... English-speaking chapter? Too big. We had to break into smaller GeoInquietos groups to be able to handle it. It is just too big. And still, except for local organization purposes, having a global Spanish Chapter is great.</div></div><br></div></div>