[Board] Officers

[Paul Ramsey]

If we're not asking anything of them that requires legal standing,  
then I think we should avoid handing out titles-with-legal-meaning.   
IMO.

P

On 7-Nov-07, at 11:13 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> Is there a reason the project chairs have to be OSGeo officers?
>
> Paul,
>
> It is not critical, but it gives them a degree of responsibility and
> a degree of standing to make things happen.
>
> I'm not adverse to revisiting this decision, but our approach has been
> that the chairs of *official* committees, *official* local  
> chapters, and
> projects that have completed incubation are VPs (aka officers).
>
> I am somewhat concerned about the proliferation of officers.
>
> Best regards,
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