[OSGeo Oceania] new board starting soon and other personal considerations

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 at 12:12, Greg Lauer via Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

>
> What next? As well as reviewing the next election process, I think we need
> to go back to basics and review the appropriate structure for OSGeo
> Oceania. I feel the structure that we put together 5+ years ago may not be
> the appropriate structure now. From my point of view if we have to exclude
> passionate people to lead OSGeo Oceania from outside Australia because of
> arbitrary laws, then we have the wrong structure in place for OSGeo Oceania
> to grow and thrive in the region.
>

By my (not huge!) understanding of Aust Company Law, if an Aust company is
trading outside of Australia, then it has to go down this path, which
apparently didn't exist 5 years ago (or even 2!). Nothing we can do about
it but comply, now.

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 at 12:44, eli via Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

>
> we did only require a written communication from the nominated people that
> they had started the application process to be accepted as valid
> nomination. Unfortunately, this was still too hard to achieve for three
> people
>

Did we ever hear anything further back from those 3?

Thanks

Graeme
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