<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Dear European GBIF Colleagues,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Until the end of the nomination period (</span>24th of May<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">), we have received the following nominations:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><b>Regional Representative</b>: Anne-Sophie Archambeau (GBIF France) and Liam Lysaght (GBIF Ireland)</span><div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><b>Representative Deputy</b>: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Liam Lysaght (GBIF Ireland)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Today we are launching the digital voting period, which ends </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Friday 9th June</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">, at noon (12:00 CET).</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Attached you will find the electronic </span><span class="gmail-m_6551586518696936002m_3346143313257972663gmail-il" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">ballot paper</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">, including instructions.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Please return your votes to </span><b><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Wouter Addink (</span></font><a href="mailto:wouter.addink@naturalis.nl" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">wouter.addink@naturalis.nl</a><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">) AND to Anders Telenius (</span></font><font color="#1155cc" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><u><a href="mailto:anders.telenius@nrm.se">anders.telenius@nrm.se</a></u></span></font><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">)</span></font></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"> before </span><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Friday 9th June</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">, noon (12:00 CET).</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Best wishes,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px">Wouter Addink, Species 2000 and Naturalis Node manager</span></div><div>Anders Telenius, GBIF Sweden Node manager</div><div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13.3333px"></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 May 2017 at 12:00, Anne-Sophie Archambeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:archambeau@gbif.fr" target="_blank">archambeau@gbif.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear European GBIF Colleagues, <br>
</p>
<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="gmail-m_6551586518696936002m_3346143313257972663gmail-m_8886631359098707606moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gbif.org/resource/80670" target="_blank">http://www.gbif.org/resource/<wbr>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>
</p>
<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>
<br>
- 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="gmail-m_6551586518696936002m_3346143313257972663gmail-m_8886631359098707606moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wouter.addink@naturalis.nl" target="_blank">wouter.addink@naturalis.nl</a>] AND to Anders Telenius
[<a class="gmail-m_6551586518696936002m_3346143313257972663gmail-m_8886631359098707606moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anders.telenius@nrm.se" target="_blank">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>
<br>
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><span class="gmail-m_6551586518696936002HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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