Hi Rob,
Thank you for this thoughtful message. I will think more on your
advice, to be careful to not to blame negative behavior on a positive
attribute, so as to not allow it to happen again. I look forward to
working with you, even if I am not elected, to as you said perfectly,
make this community more awesome! Let's plan on meeting for an early
morning breakfast soon at a FOSS4G. -jeff
Good luck to all the great candidates.
On 2017-10-15 7:08 PM, Rob Emanuele wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your comments here and elsewhere. I appreciate that you are
taking ownership of actions that have caused conflicts in the past. My
one follow up comment is that you should, in my opinion, be careful
about pointing to the excuse of passion in situations where your words
or actions negatively effect others and the community. While your
passion may be a significant reason for you to act certain ways, blaming
negative behavior solely on such a positive attribute can potentially
dismiss the negativity and the harm that the behavior can bring, and can
allow for similar things to play out in the future.
I respect your apologies here and elsewhere, and again appreciate you
responding to the concerns presented. If you are elected, I look forward
to you bringing your passion in a positive way to the board. If there
comes a time where the referenced concerns come up again in the future,
I hope you will not mind if I call it out, and point back to this time
and these discussions. I will do so as a friend, who is working with you
to help make our community even more awesome.
Best,
Rob
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Jeff McKenna
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>
wrote:
Hi Rob,
Thanks for voicing your concerns about me. You are a leader and
your words are very powerful, I have much respect for your efforts.
I apologize if my passion sometimes causes conflict on mailing
lists. When I represent the OSGeo community, I feel the need to
always be open and relay concerns, as you have done here. I need to
be more caring and respectful to others in this community.
I hope my open responses help answer a few questions, understand me
a little more, or at least bring more questions and good
discussions, so we can keep making OSGeo fun and always growing.
-jeff
On 2017-10-12 1:32 PM, Rob Emanuele wrote:
Hi Toshikazu, Nick,
Despite the fact that I have not been around long enough or have
not been in the right places to see directly a lot of the impact
that Jeff has had on the community, it's very clear from many
accounts that he has been an amazing and important figure in
OSGeo (a Sol Katz award speaks very clearly to this!). However I
feel remiss if I don't point out the following observation: as a
newer member to the OSGeo community in the past couple of years,
I've seen some intense and surprising conflict happen on the
mailing lists that were centered around or included Jeff, which
played out in ways that I believe were not good for community,
and were also not healing in their conclusions.
If there is a custom of only speaking positively on someone's
nomination thread, then I apologize. I do not want to detract
from praise that is well deserved. Is there a more appropriate
place talk through, address and hopefully dismiss reservations
about a nominee, and to also call for answers to the questions
Cameron has posted?
Thanks,
Rob
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Toshikazu SETO
<toss...@gmail.com <mailto:toss...@gmail.com>
<mailto:toss...@gmail.com <mailto:toss...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
I also support the second nomination of Jeff McKenna.
He think important to friendship with all OSGeo
communities, because
I am proud of his philosophy.
I think, this thread will use comments on nominations and
should not
deep discuss to previous FOSS4G
circumstanceand responsibility.
Best regards,
Toshikazu
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