[OpenGLAM] Europeana elects a members council

[Joris Pekel]

Apologies, copying the text made the links all messed up.

Here are the ones you need:
Explaining the change: http://pro.europeana.eu/introducing-the-new-structure
Details and people: http://pro.europeana.eu/elections2014
Become a Europeana Network member:
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/network/apply
Direct link to all candidates:
http://pro.europeana.eu/introducing-the-candidates
Voting page: http://pro.europeana.eu/cast-your-vote

Cheers,

Joris


2014-11-03 16:39 GMT+01:00 Joris Pekel <jpekel at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> At the moment, Europeana is changing the way it is governed.  In short,
> there is now a new organisational structure
> <https://webmail.kb.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=zFarJjwz-Uip4SqAnSZMsnn3yr30v9EIFY3dKceB_ZNRMwgvnlRO0EcN5hIfLVAZXoKz6ix9FfE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpro.europeana.eu%2fintroducing-the-new-structure> where
> members of the Europeana network
> <https://webmail.kb.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=zFarJjwz-Uip4SqAnSZMsnn3yr30v9EIFY3dKceB_ZNRMwgvnlRO0EcN5hIfLVAZXoKz6ix9FfE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpro.europeana.eu%2fnetwork> (which
> is free to join) will elect people to a governing council. This is in an
> effort for Europeana as an organisation to be more accountable and
> responsive to stakeholders' needs.
>
>    - You can read the description sent out to current members of the
>    network here: "*Putting the Network at the heart of Europeana*
>    <https://webmail.kb.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=zFarJjwz-Uip4SqAnSZMsnn3yr30v9EIFY3dKceB_ZNRMwgvnlRO0EcN5hIfLVAZXoKz6ix9FfE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fus3.campaign-archive1.com%2f%3fu%3dad318b7566f97eccc895e014e%26id%3dd11882f808%26e%3da08b733b22>
>    "
>    - The official details, with current list of candidates, is available
>    on the website here: Elections2014
>    <https://webmail.kb.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=zFarJjwz-Uip4SqAnSZMsnn3yr30v9EIFY3dKceB_ZNRMwgvnlRO0EcN5hIfLVAZXoKz6ix9FfE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpro.europeana.eu%2felections2014>
>
>
>
> 47 people have nominated themselves and 25 of them will make it to the
> first members' council. It would be really great if a number of people that
> stand for a strong public domain and #openGLAM in general would make it to
> this council as it will very much influence the way Europeana is going.
>
> Some people who fit this description are:
>
> Jonathan Gray (Open Knowledge)
> Gill Hamilton (National Library of Schotland)
> Paul Keller (Kennisland)
> Merete Sanderhoff (Statens Museum for Kunst)
>
> And more, have a look at all of them here
> <http://pro.europeana.eu/introducing-the-candidates>.
>
> It would be amazing if you take two minutes to have a look and vote.
> Nominations close 7th of November, this Friday.
>
> (to be a candidate, or to vote, you must first be a member of the
> Europeana Network - which just requires filling out this form online
> <https://webmail.kb.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=zFarJjwz-Uip4SqAnSZMsnn3yr30v9EIFY3dKceB_ZNRMwgvnlRO0EcN5hIfLVAZXoKz6ix9FfE.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fpro.europeana.eu%2fweb%2fguest%2fnetwork%2fapply>
> ).
>
> All the best,
>
> Joris
>
> p.s: I realise it might feel a bit as a conflict of interest for somebody
> working at Europeana to promote certain candidates, but I checked
> internally and this is very much supported. I am not allowed to vote myself
> though, but can support others.
>
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