Im also an 'interested party' and would definitely like an extra week to prepare answers to the simple question that Nikos proposes, but also think its a good idea if we replicate the Candidate Manifesto page for 2016 and all of us write something there. Jorge can you setup the stub?
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:56 AM, SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Jorge's suggestion (actually Gert-Jan's) > > Sergio Acosta y Lara > Departamento de Geomática > Dirección Nacional de Topografía > Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas > URUGUAY > (598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330 > > ________________________________________ > De: Discuss <[email protected]> en nombre de Nikos Alexandris > <[email protected]> > Enviado: viernes, 16 de setiembre de 2016 3:39 > Para: Jorge Sanz > Cc: OSGeo Discussions > Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2016] Nominations reminder and campaign > proposal > > Jorge Sanz: > >>Dear OSGeo community and charter members >> >>This is a reminder that there's still some days for nominations to the >>Board of Directors elections. We have already nine great candidates, >>including all the present Board members running for re-election. Take >>a look at [1] for an overview of the nominations and support >>expressions. Maybe there's a candidate that is worth your support or >>someone special that you think should run to join our Board? >> >>The other point of this email is to follow up with Gert-Jan >>proposal[2] to put a week between the nominations period and the >>actual voting to let candidates to express their intentions for their >>term. >> >>I'm inclined to accept it because I think is a good idea and no one >>has opposed but also because next week I'll be out of the office for >>the GEOSTAT course first here in Spain (20/21) and SoTM in Brussels >>(22/26) later and I'll be pretty busy. >> >>What do you think? Looking forward for your opinions. > > In my humble view, both as an OSGeo charter member and GRASS-GIS' CRO > (recently experienced the > role for the new PSC election), I can only recommend to allow or even ask, in > some way, all candidates to support their candidacy publicly. > > For the next GRASS-GIS' PSC election, I support what came out of a related > thread, in a post by Micha Silver (see > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2016#Aftertheelection): > > request (which, I know, is rather a bit strict) candidates to feedback the > community by answering to > the very question (slightly altered) > > "What should the community expect from my membership?" > > Kindest regards, Nikos > > >>All the best >>Jorge >>CRO 2016 >> >>[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2016 >>[2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-September/016606.html > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
