Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
P Kishor wrote: Hi all, I would love hear from others about what they think of geography-based Board seats. Please weigh in. Puneet, I'm coming to this late. It is my opinion that hard coding specific numbers of board seats from specific geographic locales is not a great idea for some of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Patton
P Kishor wrote: I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a charter member only a couple of months ago), Board membership could be an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread P Kishor
On 8/17/07, Dave Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P Kishor wrote: I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a charter member only

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread Tim Bowden
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 20:54 -0700, Dave Patton wrote: P Kishor wrote: I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a charter