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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/10/2012 9:19 AM, Frank Warmerdam
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 1. What is not working
with the current process, or how would adding more people
make the Exec Committee more effective?<br>
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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>
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<div>Cameron, </div>
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<div>Are you referring to the option for the committee to add
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Yes.<br>
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<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). <br>
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I'm in favour of adjusting our decision making / voting process such
that it can be conducted over IRC/email/... . Something along the
lines of: "All that is required for a motion to be passed is that we
get votes from (All/Majority) of board members via the meeting or
follow up on a publicly archived forum such as email."<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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
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<div>The board already has the right to delegate all sorts of
things and </div>
<div>does so. </div>
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<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. <br>
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The current process is that the majority of board discussions are
done in public forums, and the public contribute at times and are
listened to. But at the end of the day, it is the board who make the
final decision.<br>
I think this process is working for us, and as yet haven't seen a
reason for changing it.<br>
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With regards to delegation to committees: Joining a committee
basically involves offering to help. The chair of the committee is a
voted position (by the committee). This process mostly working
(although the conference committee doesn't currently have a chair),
and as yet I haven't seen a need for another level of committee
hierarchy.<br>
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<div>I also wouldn't particularly mind removing the clause about
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<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>
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So should we simplify the proposal to being that board decisions are
allowed to be proposed and approved by email?<br>
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