I want to thank you publicly Vasile for all the time that you are donating us with your precious volunteer work! Have a nice Sunday! Maria
---------------------------------------------------- See you at FOSS4G Seoul: http://2015.foss4g.org/ ---------------------------------------------------- Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor Politecnico di Milano ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY) Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321 e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it > Il giorno 26/set/2015, alle ore 19:53, Vasile Craciunescu > <vas...@geo-spatial.org> ha scritto: > > Dear all, > > I'm not in favor of modifying the election schedule/calendar, well announced > in advance. However, I do understand why, due to FOSS4G, some actions were > delayed. I mean: > > 1. The request for nominees manifestos was announced very late. I'm sorry for > not asking myself the nominees from the first place to add this information > to wiki. It was on my todo list but got lost in course of action. I have to > thank Steven for bringing this subject on the table. > > 2. Most of the nominees attended FOSS4G and were quite busy doing things > during the conference and not being able add the manifesto or to answer to > the questions from the community. Everyone should note that the manifesto is > not mandatory according with the existing election process rules. > > 3. A lot of our charter members were also in Seoul and did not have the > chance to give proper attention to the elections processes. > > At this very moment, 180 charter members, from a total of 280, voted. I just > sent to all of the remaining members a final reminder to vote. I'm willing to > extend the deadline for 48 hours but not because of FOSS4G/manifesto issue. > Also, I'm willing to spend my Sunday&Monday trying to get personally in touch > with all the remaining 100 charter members via > IRC/E-mail/Skype/Twitter/GitHub/Facebook/Linkedin/Whatsapp/Telegram/Telephone/etc > to make sure that they know about the elections and to kindly ask them to > vote. I'm totally against revoting. The manifesto is not mandatory according > with our rules. I see no real purpose for someone to change their vote. > > Best, > Vasile > > PS I just noticed that most of our nominees for the board of directors did > not vote yet. Of course, we are still in time. Anyway, please don't think > that you have to abstain just because you are running for a seat in the board > of directors. You are entitled to vote, even for your own name. > > >> On 9/25/15 3:49 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: >> I agree with Steve's recommendation to extend the voting deadline. I >> suggest next Friday, 2 October, end of day. It is your call Vasile, as >> you know the amount of votes remaining. >> >> -jeff >> >> >> >>> On 2015-09-25 6:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote: >>> Forwarding you a message from Stephen Woodbridge. >>> >>> Best, >>> Vasile >>> >>> >>> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >>> Subject: Fwd: Consider extending deadline for board voting >>> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:52:42 -0400 >>> From: Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> >>> To: Vasile Craciunescu <vas...@geo-spatial.org> >>> >>> Vasile, >>> >>> I tried sending this to the board list, but I guess only board members >>> are subscribed to that list or maybe I have to sub to the list if it is >>> open. Anyway please feel free to forward this to the board. >>> >>> I already looked that the candidates and voted so maybe it is not that >>> big of a deal, but I think it would make sense to to consider these >>> ideas for the future to improve our overall voting process. I think this >>> year went pretty smoothly overall, so excellent job on your part. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Steve >>> >>>> On 9/24/2015 5:33 PM, Mail Delivery System wrote: >>>> Subject: Consider extending deadline for board voting >>>> From: Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> >>>> Date: 9/24/2015 5:19 PM >>>> >>>> To: bo...@lists.osgeo.org >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm sure you have already considered this but I think it might be a good >>>> idea to consider extending the deadline for board voting because a lot >>>> of the candidates have been at FOSSG and/or other conferences and I >>>> think it would be good to get the candidates to respond to these >>>> questions. Vasile already mention that about 1/2 the members have >>>> already voted, so maybe it is moot at this point. >>>> >>>> Regardless of whether this does or does not happen this year, I think >>>> that it would be a good idea to make it part of the planning from future >>>> elections. You might have a schedule like: >>>> >>>> * cut-off date for nominations >>>> * 1 week for candidates to answers a fix set of questions >>>> * then the elections >>>> >>>> You might even consider putting in place something where any candidate >>>> that does not answer the questionnaire would get dropped from the voting >>>> because if they can not make time to post answers, then you might want >>>> to consider that they also might not have time for spending on board >>>> related activities. While I understand that schedule conflicts for that >>>> week might occur having a schedule and know the plan should allow them >>>> to work around that. And maybe they would have more time in a future >>>> election. >>>> >>>> Anyway, thanks for all you have done to keep OSGeo running! >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> -Steve W >> _______________________________________________ >> Board mailing list >> bo...@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Vasile Crăciunescu > geo-spatial.org: An elegant place for sharing geoKnowledge & geoData > http://www.geo-spatial.org > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/geo-spatial > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
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