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

[eli]

Thanks Greg,
Really appreciated your email and yes, we can totally improve there sharing
of the minutes by sending out also an email in the mailing list, I agree!
Cheers, Elisa

Potrebbe andar peggio...potrebbe piovere!


Il giorno ven 6 dic 2024 alle 01:35 Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> I wanted to follow up on this thread as I had commented on the lack of
> transparency. I had a chance to review the meeting minutes (
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PKhEZfvlppA3EgTugCGiZIRrFQxfjbJR/view)
> and from what I can see there seemed to be a fairly robust conversation on
> this issue. I may not personally agree with the outcome and/or methodology,
> but in hindsight, my comments on the lack of transparency in this case
> weren't fair. So my apologies to Board, and I appreciate the effort in
> documenting the meetings.
>
> As a side note could an email be sent out after each meeting with link to
> minutes please.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 7:03 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick via Oceania <
> oceania at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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