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2. Lets expand the group of people involved in decision
making to include committee chairs. I think this needs more
discussion. I'm wary of introducing another level of
decision making unless there are strong reasons as to why
the current system is not working.</div>
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<div>OK, all feedback so far expresses concern with the
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<div>of the marketing, incubation, sac and conference chairs to</div>
<div>the executive committed, so I've removed that from the </div>
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<div>Hopefully that will make the proposal less controversial.</div>
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<div> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Executive_Committee_Terms_Of_Reference" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Executive_Committee_Terms_Of_Reference</a></div>
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Frank, while I'm open to potentially progressing this motion at some
point, I'm still not seeing the value of expanding the Exec
Committee. In particular:<br>
1. What is not working with the current process, or how would adding
more people make the Exec Committee more effective?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cameron, </div><div><br></div><div>Are you referring to the option for the committee to add members to itself? </div><div>
<br></div><div>The current process is problematic in the sense that it is hard for us to make decisions quickly because we need quorum for board meetings (or every last board member voting when doing it by email). </div>
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2. I'm very wary of providing a committee with the responsibility of
delegating responsibility to a select person or group of people. It
is fraught with danger of accusations of favourtism, or people's
feelings being hurt for not being considered, or the board just
accepting everyone because they don't want to hurt anyone's
feelings.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The board already has the right to delegate all sorts of things and </div><div>does so. </div><div><br></div><div>Is your concern that folks will want on the executive committee and</div>
<div>be offended/concerned when they aren't appointed to it? I'm not </div><div>very clear how this is different than any other committee, PSC, etc</div><div>in OSGeo. </div><div><br></div><div>I also wouldn't particularly mind removing the clause about the</div>
<div>executive committee being able to extend itself but since we are</div><div>already proposing to delegate the authority of the board to it for</div><div>most purposes it would be able to do anything it wants to itself</div>
<div>anyways since it has the authority to rework it's terms of reference.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div></div>-- <br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com" target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>
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