Thank you. I'm looking forward to learning and helping. Heather
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Schuyler Erle <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, HOTties! and a happy new year to you all. > > First, let me thank those of you who participated in the new member > election in December. This year was the first time we were obliged to hold > an actual vote for the new member induction, and enough of you finally > submitted ballots to make it possible for me to welcome the following > contributors to voting membership in our formal organization: > > * Robert Banick > * Jaakko Helleranta > * Heather Leson > * Tim Waters > > All four inductees have devoted significant time to the Team in the past, > and have rendered significant service for their efforts. We are proud to > announce their induction, and hope that they will continue to provide the > excellent contributions for which they have been justly recognized, and > which make our organization capable of doing the work that we do. > > I would like to offer recognition to the nominees who were not elected in > this round. In particular, there were two individuals who have also devoted > significant time and effort to HOT's work, who missed induction by only a > single vote. I hope that we will be able to induct them, as well as the > other worthy nominees from last month's ballot, in a future new member > election. > > On that note, the Board of Directors has been discussing the possibility > of holding new member elections more frequently, in order to give > participants in the organization more opportunities to get involved and > have an active voice in the direction of the org. We are hoping to > undertake, with your full involvement, an exploration and discussion of > what it means to be a member of HOT, and what you all would like the > direction of our Team to be over the next year. We are looking to conduct > this discussion over the next few months, with the hope of holding another > new member election later in the spring. > > The nomination period for the Board of Directors election has been > extended to January 9, end of day PST, as mentioned previously on the > mailing list. The Board election will commence thereafter and continue > until end of day January 16. We will send you voting instructions and other > reminders about this over the next week. > > If you have any comments or questions about this process, or thoughts > you'd like to share on the Team and on the responsibilities of voting > membership within the Team, I wholeheartedly invite you to reply to this > message and kick off the discussion forthwith. > > On behalf of your Board, I wish you all a happy and productive 2013! > > SDE > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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