[OSGeo-Board] Eighth Board Meeting - Committee Chair Guidelines

[Jo Walsh]

dear Board,

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 04:32:23PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> in preparation of the meeting I have re-read
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Committee_Chair_Guidelines

Something else that jumped out at me was this:

#  Note that anyone can become a committee member. Voting Members of
#  OSGeo have no special status at the committee level, and we wish to
#  encourage any qualified member of the community to get involved in
#  committees.

I recall this conversation about committee membership:
https://board.osgeo.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=board&msgNo=634
[[ The initial committee members would need to add new members by a
voted on motion... So, in particular, people can't add themselves to a
committee.  They can volunteer to participate and the committee 
would add them if it so wishes. ]]

This makes sense but is a bit rigid. The Geodata committee has a lot
more people on its project page than on its formal 'committee'. I am
concerned a bit that a bar to entry as formal as a voting process, a
meeting etc, might be a bar to participation.

The Guidelines make a lot of sense to me, they seem useful. 

best wishes,


jo