[Board] Officers

[Paul Ramsey]

Is there a reason the project chairs have to be OSGeo officers?
P

On 7-Nov-07, at 10:51 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm afraid I was not specific in the last board meeting in my  
> motion for
> the graduation of OpenLayers from graduation.  Implicit in this is  
> that we
> need to name an officer responsible for OpenLayers.
>
> The chair of the OpenLayers PSC is Erik Uzureau.
>
> Does anyone feel we need to have a specific motion naming Erik  
> Uzureau as
> "OSGeo VP, OpenLayers", or are we willing to take it as implicit in  
> the
> graduation?  Erik is a metacarta contractor and was "the quiet one"  
> that
> Chris dragged up on to the front during FOSS4G (at the OSGeo AGM?).
>
> More broadly, I'd like to have a stock page that I could point  
> folks to
> who are named OSGeo officers (committee chairs, and project chairs,  
> local
> chapter chairs).  Would anyone be interested in working to prepare  
> such a
> page in the wiki?
>
> My understanding is that being an officer of the foundation implies  
> some
> fiducial responsibilities, and some ability to speak on behalf of the
> foundation.  But I'm really quite foggy on the whole issue.  I think
> such a page would need some research, and consultation with a lawyer.
> I have no special expertise, but would be willing to help somewhat  
> with
> such an effort.  I'm just not keen on leading it.
>
> Best regards,
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