I agree that this is the first year that nominations have been publicly discussed and it is a departure from previous years. I followed Jeff's lead when I nominated Chris.
But hey, we're an open community, I think it's even in the name somewhere. And spreading a little recognition around to hard working members of our community surely doesn't hurt. Rich On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Jeff McKenna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stefano, Bart, all, > > I simply sent my nomination to [email protected] and CC'd Discuss - > I did this on my own doing. I don't have a blog, so my opinions are > posted through mailing lists, so I don't see an issue with posting my > thoughts here in public. In fact I am very proud to post my nomination > for Venka publicly. > > Although now it seems I was wrong. > > -jeff > > > > On 12-09-18 11:40 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: >> Hi Stefano, >> >> I share your concerns. This is the first year that this is happening, >> and it's not outlined at all in the request for nominations. >> >> Best regards, >> Bart >> >> -- >> Bart van den Eijnden >> OSGIS - http://osgis.nl >> >> On Sep 18, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Stefano Costa <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Il 18/09/2012 13:51, nicolas bozon ha scritto: >>>>> He is the best OSGeo advocate i know so far. >> >> Regardless of the strong merits of Venkatesh (I don't know you >> personally, but I do agree with others about your exceptional >> contribution to the community), I wonder if it is really OK to have a >> public "thumbs up session" for candidates rather than leave it to the >> committee to decide. Especially towards other potential candidates >> (there may even be others candidates already, AFAIK, since e-mails >> have to be submitted to a separate, private address and not to the >> discussion list). >> >> If this sounds over-bureaucratisation of our community standards, I >> apologise in advance. >> >> Cheers, >> steko >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
