Election 2017 Candidate Manifestos - Revision history

Venkat: /* What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) */

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What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any)

Venkat: /* What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) */

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What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any)

Venkat: /* Venkatesh Raghavan */

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Venkatesh Raghavan

Venkat: /* What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) */

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What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any)

Venkat: /* Any things that you would like to change or introduce */

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Any things that you would like to change or introduce

Venkat: /* About me */

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About me

Venkat: /* About me */

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About me

Venkat: /* What you have done within the community in the past */

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What you have done within the community in the past

Venkat: /* Venkatesh Raghavan */

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Venkatesh Raghavan

Venkat: /* Venkatesh Raghavan */

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Venkatesh Raghavan

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 Wish to fulfill any role assigned to me by the board and our community to the best of my ability. Based on my past experience and some understanding of how our community works, I think my main role would be that of a “general-purpose” promoter for our foundation. I also wish to provide input on governance issues from an Asian perspective and bring in a multi-cultural viewpoint to our decision making process.
-OSGeo will be a teenager in February, 2018. I hope that out teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep a watchful eye to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and miss the fun of being a teenager.
+OSGeo will be a teenager in February, 2018. I hope that our teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep a watchful eye to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and miss the fun of being a teenager.
 == Candidate ==

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 === What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
-Wish to fulfill any role assigned to me by the board and our community to the best of my ability. Based on my past experience and some understanding of how our community works, I think my main role would be that of a “general-purpose” promoter for our foundation. I also to provide input on governance issues from an Asian perspective and bring in a multi-cultural viewpoint to our decision making process.
+Wish to fulfill any role assigned to me by the board and our community to the best of my ability. Based on my past experience and some understanding of how our community works, I think my main role would be that of a “general-purpose” promoter for our foundation. I also wish to provide input on governance issues from an Asian perspective and bring in a multi-cultural viewpoint to our decision making process.
 OSGeo will be a teenager in February, 2018. I hope that out teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep a watchful eye to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and miss the fun of being a teenager.

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 My write-up for the 2015 Board election is at
 [[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015_Candidate_Manifestos#Venkatesh_Raghavan]]
-Since January, 2016, I have tried my best to fulfill all responsibilities that are expected as a President of OSGeo . I have also been active the Conference Committee and ZOO-Project PSC. I have represented OSGeo at various events and also helped in organizing local, regional, and international events.
+Since January, 2016, I have tried my best to fulfill all responsibilities that are expected of an OSGeo President. I have also been active the Conference Committee and ZOO-Project PSC. I have represented OSGeo at various events and also helped in organizing local, regional, and international events.
 On the academic side, I have brought out conference proceedings, special issue of peer reviewed journals and also supported the activities of GeoforAll as a member of the Advisory Board and regional co-chair for Asia.

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 === What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===
-Wish to fulfill any role assigned to me by the board and our community to the best of my ability. Based on my past experience and some understanding of how our community works, I think my main role would be that of a “general-purpose” promoter for our foundation. I also hope to continue to provide input on governance issues from an Asian perspective and bring in a multi-cultural viewpoint into our decision making process.
+Wish to fulfill any role assigned to me by the board and our community to the best of my ability. Based on my past experience and some understanding of how our community works, I think my main role would be that of a “general-purpose” promoter for our foundation. I also to provide input on governance issues from an Asian perspective and bring in a multi-cultural viewpoint to our decision making process.
-OSGeo will be a teenager in February, 2018. I hope that out teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep a watchful eye to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and losing all the fun of being a teenager.
+OSGeo will be a teenager in February, 2018. I hope that out teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep a watchful eye to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and miss the fun of being a teenager.
 == Candidate ==

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 === Any things that you would like to change or introduce ===
-* I would like to have more interaction charter members and enhance their participation in decision making.
+* Increase avenues for interactions with charter members and enhance their participation in decision making.
 * Find ways to strike a better balance the expectations of users and developers (of OSGeo Software), perhaps by organizing some user focused sessions at FOSS4G events.
-* I realize during my tenure at the board, that the tasks consume more time
+* I realize during my tenure at the board, that the tasks consume more time and effort that I had expected. I think we need some paid secretarial services to handle routine tasks so that the boards decision becomes speedier and smoother.
 === What role you would wish to fulfill on the board (if any) ===

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 === About me ===
-Work as Professor of Geoinformatics at the Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan. You can find more about me [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan here]]
+Work as Professor of Geoinformatics at the Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan. You can find more about me [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan here]
 === My vision ===

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 My recent talks at FOSS4G-Europe 2017 [1] and FOSS4G-Korea 2017 [2] and some documents on SlideShare [3] should provide some more information about my past contributions and future perspectives.
-* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DAq1j26HY&feature=youtu.be FOSS4G-Korea 2017 Talk]]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DAq1j26HY&feature=youtu.be FOSS4G-Korea 2017 Talk]
-* [[https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g-europe/foss4g-europe-2017-paris/src/master/presentations/2017-07-19/foss4g-europe-2017-KeynoteSpeaker-Where_Do_We_Come_From-VenkateshRaghavan.pdf FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Talk]]
+* [https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g-europe/foss4g-europe-2017-paris/src/master/presentations/2017-07-19/foss4g-europe-2017-KeynoteSpeaker-Where_Do_We_Come_From-VenkateshRaghavan.pdf FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Talk]
-* [[http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/ some other recent talks]]
+* [http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/ some other recent talks]
 My write-up for the 2015 Board election is at

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 === About me ===
-Work as Professor of Geoinformatics at the Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan. You can find more [[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan here]]
+Work as Professor of Geoinformatics at the Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, Japan. You can find more about me[[http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Venkatesh_Raghavan here]]
 === My vision ===
 * Consolidating the free & open geospatial ecosystem through Industry-Academia-Government synergy.
 * OSGeo as community-driven engine to bring about positive social change.
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 === What you have done within the community in the past ===
-Came up with FOSS4G acronym in 2004 to denote Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics and have been promoting FOSS4G ever since. As a co-founder of OSGeo, served on our first Board. Currently serve as the OSGeo President, board member of OSGeo.JP and active role in several of OSGeo Local Chapters especially in the Asian region.
+Came up with FOSS4G acronym in 2004 to denote Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics and have been promoting FOSS4G ever since. As a co-founder of OSGeo, served on our first Board. Currently serve as the OSGeo President, board member of OSGeo.JP and active role in several OSGeo Local Chapters especially in the Asian region.
 Since the inception of OSGeo, I have used every opportunity that I could get to promote our activities by delivering talks, organizing conferences/workshops, helping in establishment of local chapters, writing research papers/training documentation, localizing OSGeo tools, software packaging, mentoring/advising SME’s to start-up business using FOSS4G tools etc.
-My recent talk at FOSS4G-Europe 2017 [1] and FOSS4G-Korea 2017 [2] and some documents on SlideShare [3] should provide some more information about my past contributions and future perspectives.
+My recent talks at FOSS4G-Europe 2017 [1] and FOSS4G-Korea 2017 [2] and some documents on SlideShare [3] should provide some more information about my past contributions and future perspectives.
-[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DAq1j26HY&feature=youtu.be
+* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DAq1j26HY&feature=youtu.be FOSS4G-Korea 2017]]
-[2] https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g-europe/foss4g-europe-2017-paris/src/master/presentations/2017-07-19/foss4g-europe-2017-KeynoteSpeaker-Where_Do_We_Come_From-VenkateshRaghavan.pdf
+* [[https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g-europe/foss4g-europe-2017-paris/src/master/presentations/2017-07-19/foss4g-europe-2017-KeynoteSpeaker-Where_Do_We_Come_From-VenkateshRaghavan.pdf FOSS4G-Europe 2017]]
-[3] http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/
+* [[http://www.slideshare.net/VenkateshRaghavan1/ Slide Share]]
 My write-up for the 2015 Board election is at
 [[https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015_Candidate_Manifestos#Venkatesh_Raghavan]]
-Since Januaru, I have taken up on all the responsibilities that a President of OSGeo is expected to fulfill. I have also been active in some of the committees namely Conference Committee, ZOO-PSC. I have represented OSGeo at various events and also contributed to the growing number of local, regional, and international conferences.
+Since January, 2016, I have tried my best to fulfill all responsibilities that are expected as a President of OSGeo . I have also been active the Conference Committee and ZOO-Project PSC. I have represented OSGeo at various events and also helped in organizing local, regional, and international events.
-On the academic side, I have brought out conference proceedings, special issue of peer reviewed journals and also supported the activities of GeoforAll as a member of the Advisory Board
+On the academic side, I have brought out conference proceedings, special issue of peer reviewed journals and also supported the activities of GeoforAll as a member of the Advisory Board and regional co-chair for Asia.
 === What your interests are in terms of the board ===
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 * Find ways to strike a better balance the expectations of users and developers (of OSGeo Software), perhaps by organizing some user focused sessions at FOSS4G events.
 * I realize during my tenure at the board, that the tasks consume more time
-and effort that I has expected. I think we need some paid secretarial
+and effort that I had expected. I think we need some paid secretarial
 services to handle routine tasks so that the boards decision becomes speedier and
 smoother.
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 Wish to fulfill any role assigned to me by the board and our community to the best of my ability. Based on my past experience and some understanding of how our community works, I think my main role would be that of a “general-purpose” promoter for our foundation. I also hope to continue to provide input on governance issues from an Asian perspective and bring in a multi-cultural viewpoint into our decision making process.
-OSGeo will be a teenager in 2018. I hope that out teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep vigil to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and losing all the fun of being a teenager.
+OSGeo will be a teenager in February, 2018. I hope that out teenage will be as enjoyable and memorable as our childhood years have been. As a board member, I would like to keep a watchful eye to ensure that we don't end up growing up a bit too fast and losing all the fun of being a teenager.
 == Candidate ==