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<p>Dear European GBIF Colleagues, <br>
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<p>I hope you all came back safe at home and I want to thank you
again for this fruitful meeting. The minutes and presentations
will be on-line soon. <br>
</p>
<p>As presented by Wouter Addink during the meeting, this year the
European Nodes need to nominate the Regional Representative and
Representative Deputy for Europe to the Nodes Steering Group. <br>
</p>
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<p> The Nodes ToR (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gbif.org/resource/80670">http://www.gbif.org/resource/80670</a>) indicates
that: </p>
- One of the responsabilities of the Regional Sub-committees is
to: “Appoint a Regional Representative, and deputy, to the Nodes
Steering Group preferably from among its Voting Participant
members”.<br>
- "Regional Representatives are appointed for an initial two-year
period, extendable for a further two years".</blockquote>
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As you know, EU Nodes elected in 2015 representatives were :<br>
Myself as Regional Representative<br>
and Anders Telenius as Representative Deputy<br>
<p>Next steps for the 2017 elections: <br>
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<p>Current EU representative of the NSG, AS Archambeau, can be
re-nominated for the post and has informed that she is willing
to serve for a second term.<br>
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<p>Anders Telenius, as he was elected vice-chair of the NSG at the
last Governing Board, is not available for re-election as
Deputy. </p>
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Anders Telenius and Wouter Addink agreed to assist in this process
as the Election Committee. <b> </b><br>
And the proposed election procedure are the following:<br>
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- Call for nominations at EU Nodes meeting in Stockholm and through
the Nodes mailinglist. The deadline for nominations is <b>24th of
May 2017.</b><br>
- Announcement of candidates and distribution of ballot email<br>
- Cast votes by sending replies to the ballot email, independently,
to the election committee: Wouter Addink
[<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wouter.addink@naturalis.nl">wouter.addink@naturalis.nl</a>] AND to Anders Telenius
[<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anders.telenius@nrm.se">anders.telenius@nrm.se</a>] <br>
- Announcement of results to Nodes. In case of tie, a second round
voting period is run, with the same voting procedure<br>
- Representation will go into effect by GB24 <br>
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And now, thanks to both Anders and Wouter, I let them take the lead
of these procedure ! <br>
<br>
With my best regards,<br>
Anne-Sophie <br>
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