On Fri, June 13, 2008 18:47, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > > On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: > > >> Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people to >> represent the foundation, based on the merits and commitment with the >> usual free software values, rather than a geographic representation. Of >> course having elected people from all over the world should be a sign >> that FOSS4G is spreading and OSGeo is getting more and more broader. > > Since there are only a few open positions for board elections each > year, it will take some time to see any long term movement in > representation either way. In addition to to "merits and commitment" I > would also add "vision" to the list of positive attributes for board > members. > > One thing that I think would be useful right away would be to start a > group made up of one representative from each local chapter - a sort of > global council. This doesn't have to be a new or separate mailing list, > but could be. Just having a group to go to for sharing thoughts, ideas > and vision would be really valuable. Sound good? > > Tyler
Yes. I didn't want to let this pass uncommented. But yet again I was too elaborate and thus moved it to my emerging http://arnulf.us/Blog Best regards, Arnulf. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
