[LGM] LGM2014 decision meeting, Saturday at 16.00 UTC

[Louis Desjardins]

2013/5/9 Jon Nordby <jononor at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> as we decided at the kick-off meeting in Madrid, we plan to have a
> decision on LGM2014 venue by May 15th. That means we need to have a meeting
> very soon.
>
> So lets try to get together on Saturday 11 May at 16.00 UTC (18.00 CET) at
> #lgm @ irc.freenode.org
> Public pad for the meeting: http://titanpad.com/ajsOqb9Wpu *
> The people present at the kick-off meeting in Madrid have voting rights.
> Others have the right to observe and speak.
>

Hi,

We do have a LGM Board that was created a couple years ago.

Members of the LGM Board
1. Dave Neary
2. Louis Desjardins
3. Kamila Giedrojć
4. Femke Snelting
5. Gregory Pittman
6. Alessandro Rimoldi
7. Jon Phillips
8. Nathan Willis
9. Alexandre Prokoudine

List of the people who attended the meeting in Madrid (as per email from
Jon sent on the last LGM day)
Timoty Giet
6. Ale Rimoldi (the number in front of some names refers to the list above)
2. Louis Desjardins
4. Femke Snelting
Maria Leandro
Camille Bissuel
Øyvind Kolås
Jon Nordby
Mario Behling
Hong-Phuc
Dave Crossland

In the list from Madrid we are missing 2 people that were actually there:
8. Nathan Willis
Andreas Vox

We are also missing, from the LGM Board (that has never been dismissed)
Dave Neary (1), Kamila Giedrojć (3), Gregory Pittman (5), Jon Philips (7)
and Alexandre Prokoudine (9). Including the 2 that were there but are not
showing on the list and the 5 from the Board, those 7 people should all
count in.

The LGM Board is in fact composed of the following people:
1. Dave Neary
2. Louis Desjardins
3. Kamila Giedrojć
4. Femke Snelting
5. Gregory Pittman
6. Alessandro Rimoldi
7. Jon Phillips
8. Nathan Willis
9. Alexandre Prokoudine
10. Timoty Giet
11. Maria Leandro
12. Camille Bissuel
13. Øyvind Kolås
14. Jon Nordby
15. Mario Behling
16. Hong-Phuc
17. Dave Crossland
18. Andreas Vox

We said a majority of 2/3 is needed to select the venue for 2014. So, 12
out of 18. It has also been said in the recent past that we aim at a
consensus. The debate over the venue is not meant to split us apart but in
fact to gather us together. We, as an organisation, must select the best
possible venue for the LGM, according to its goals. This is the role of the
Board members. LGM counts first. We have a big responsibility.

I do acknowledge that as a group in Madrid we agreed on what Jon is stating
in his email today but we must acknowledge at the same time that the
organisation has agreed on constituting this Board to help make the best
decisions. We can enlarge it like we do this year. But we cannot shrink it
based on who was physically present and who was not. Accepting new comers
is just great. Dismissing people because they were not present at an
improvised and last-minute announced meeting is certainly not a valid
reason. In order to make a wise decision, we need the input from the 3
kinds of people I see in this list:
a) Organisers of past and present LGMs
b) Active contributors and supporters to the organisation of LGM
c) New comers to the LGM organisation (not necessarily new comers to LGM)

To illustrate:
In a) we have the following 5 people
1. Dave Neary (Lyon)
2. Louis Desjardins (Montreal)
3. Kamila Giedrojć (Wroclaw)
4. Femke Snelting (Brussels, Madrid)
6. Alessandro Rimoldi (Vienna)

In b) we have the following 5 people
5. Gregory Pittman
7. Jon Phillips
8. Nathan Willis
9. Alexandre Prokoudine
12. Camille Bissuel

In c) we have the following 8 people
10. Timoty Giet
11. Maria Leandro
13. Øyvind Kolås
14. Jon Nordby
15. Mario Behling
16. Hong-Phuc
17. Dave Crossland
18. Andreas Vox

I'm happy to find out that we have 8 newcomers. The blood mix is just great.

Footnote: It’s possible that Kamila and Jon Philips won’t show up since
they were not active recently. The list would then shrink to 16 people. The
2/3 majority would then be 11/16.

>
> Everyone: Please confirm whether you can make the meeting or not, either
> in the pad or by email.
>

I'll be online.


> I will be at a family event, but will sneak off for a few hours for the
> meeting.
>
> Louis, Maria, Mario, Dave: Please add links to the proposals to the pad,
> at least in time for the meeting, ideally as quick as possible so people
> can read through them ahead of time.
> Maria/Louis: Can you also add a link to the proposal selection
> guidelines/criterias?
>

We have access to the website where we'll put the proposals on a dedicated
page. So, we can discuss on the titanpad and refer to the web pages? Is
that ok?


>
> Cheers,
>

Thanks a lot Jon!

Cheers!

Louis

> Jon
>
> * how do I sign in / create a pad at lgm.titanpad.org ?
>
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