Hi all, I've a question in regards to how important it is to be a board member if you represent the OSGeo.
I've never represented the OSGeo outside a FOSS4G and not outside of the western world. Hence I don't know how important it is to have some official title if you talk to institutions/agencies/governments. Does it make a difference? Do you need to be a board member or could it also be a role in your local chapter? Cheers, Volker On 10/29/2017 03:17 PM, Sanghee Shin wrote: > Dear All, > > > > First of all I'd like to give my sincere congratulations to newly > elected board members. Here I want to share some of my feelings around > this board elections. > > > > 1. Needless to say all new board members are deserved to win the > election. However as a whole, now we have all WHITE board of directors > only from Europe and North America. We've talked about the importance of > diversity and inclusiveness many times so far, however the reality is > like this. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not writing this because of my > failure in an election. Being nominated and encouragement to run the > election was just great honour to me. For me as Asian, one of most > shocking and disappointing moment in this election was Venka's failure > in an election. Venka has contributed so much to Asian community over > the last 2 years. His contributions and activities reached out not only > to Japan but also to Thailand, Vietnam, India and sometimes to Korea as > well. He also put so much efforts organizing FOSS4G Asia this year. And > I know as a former board member how he restlessly carried out his duty > as president of OSGeo. And finally he failed! I know he didn't answer to > some of quesitons to nominees during the election period. Ok, it’s > excuse however he and I was being tied up with handling a urgent issue > in community. Anyway I and other Asian friends are so shocked that he > was not elected! I bet other Asian members share the same feeling. The > result gave the clear meaning to Asian community, "If Venka can't be a > board member of OSGeo, nobody can be forever from Asia." I already saw > many complaints and discouragement in Asian community. I believe regions > other than Europe and NA have the rights to be reprensented failry. So, > I'd like to ask new board members to fix this kind of wrong > representation of board configuration by adopting new election rules. > > > > 2. I believe Jeff McKenna's ambiguous behaviours around election period > made both him and OSGeo untrustworthy. I don't want to mention again > here some of concerns over him in detail during the election. One thing > I'd like to point out is his un-withdrwal from board election after > disclosing the results. Nothing personal, Jeff. Actually I tried to > accept and understand this situation so many times for a couple of days, > but I failed to accept. We're not the children in the kindergarten! How > can it be happened? The last thing I did as a former board member was > approving the motion, "This board election is valid." I was able to > block the motion however I approved the motion. Because I accepted his > withdrawal as sincere one and trusted him. I'm feeling my good intention > was being betrayed. I know I don't have any rights now to change my > previous decision and I don't want to criticise someone here. New board, > this case cleary has shown that there's big loophole in our election > process. If OSGe can't fix it, OSGeo will lose trust and credibility. > Board, you need to bear in mind that there's already bunch of sign of > loosing trust from community. > > > > Many mentioned that OSGeo is run by Do-ocracy. I believe the basis of > Do-ocracy is recognizing of someone's work and trust. If someone's > hardwork is not recognized and acknowledged fairy, who will want to jump > into the matters to fix it? And if someone can't trust the organization, > who wants to put their precious time and efforts to untrustworthy one? > > > > If OSGeo lose the trust, it will lose everything. OSGeo is just shell. > > > > Best regards, > > 신상희 > --- > Shin, Sanghee > Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company > www.gaia3d.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
