<div dir="ltr">At the project level we do have -1 as a veto - with the provision that the "-1" must provide an alternate plan and/or resources to make it happen.<div><br></div><div>This makes providing a -1 costly, but also productive / positive / collaborative.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 September 2016 at 05:52, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm concerned that some OSGeo committees are squashing enthusiasm and reducing the effectiveness of our most vibrant OSGeo volunteers, by over-use of the "-1" veto vote.<br>
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OSGeo is a volunteer organisation. It works at its best as a "Merit-ocracy" and "Do-ocracy". This is where people with great ideas support and encourage the people who step up to do things.<br>
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In a healthy community, leaders will lend advice, and will either step up to work through an issue, or will defer to the opinion of the person doing the work.<br>
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Of late, I've observed volunteers doing a lot of hard work, then being vetoed by people in authority, with minimal hands-on support provided to the volunteer. This smells like a command-and-control management model, which doesn't work very well in a volunteer organisation.<br>
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I think with a few tweaks within our committees to our management mindset we can re-invigorate our volunteer enthusiasm.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Cameron Shorter<br>
M <a href="tel:%2B61%20419%20142%20254" value="+61419142254" target="_blank">+61 419 142 254</a><br>
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