<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Vassile,<br><br></div>This survey appears to be flawed.<br><br></div><div>I applaud your efforts to bring this issue to a head, but I'm not convinced that we'll get valid results from the survey.<br></div><div><br><br>In my case: <br><br>I believe that there should be open membership for any interested, perhaps with a membership fee. <br><br>I also see the value of recognising key contributors voted through some meritocracy process as the current Charter Membership allows, with this group having a voting responsibility. This is in essence not very different from the concept of a 'committers' group within an open source project. I don't really care if the name 'Charter Membership' is changed.<br><br><br></div>However the survey appears to lead people into a binary situation where they believe in 'open' or 'closed' with 'closed' apparently assigned to those favouring 'Charter Membership'.<br><br><br></div>For example:<br><br>I'd like to vote NO to 'Should OSGeo move from the actual elected Charter member model to an (open) regular membership?'<br><br></div>But, YES to 'If you agree with the OSGeo regular membership, do you also agree with a low annual membership fee?'<br><br></div>However, I'm precluded from doing so, because I answered NO to Q1.<br><br></div>For Question 4, I would like to answer both:<br><br>- YES for Open, in the context that everyone interested should be able to participate in discussions and the OSGeo Community (perhaps having paid a membership fee); and <br><br>- YES for 'Closed', in the context of key votes being subject to the equivalent of a 'Committers' list where people have been voted in through some meritocracy process.<br><br></div>- However, I can only choose one or the other!<br><br><br></div><div>I haven't read the remaining questions at this stage, given the flawed questions at the beginning.<br><br></div><div><br><br></div>I apologise if you had sent this out for review earlier. I have not been following this debate closely as this type of membership noise pops up on a regular basis. <br><br>However, when this proceeds to a vote of the OSGeo Charter membership, I need to register a comment.<br><br><br></div><div>For consideration.<br></div><div><br></div>Bruce<br><br><br><div><div><div><br><br><div><div><div><div><br><br><br><div><br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:left;color:black;BORDER-BOTTOM:medium none;BORDER-LEFT:medium none;PADDING-BOTTOM:0in;PADDING-LEFT:0in;PADDING-RIGHT:0in;BORDER-TOP:#b5c4df 1pt solid;BORDER-RIGHT:medium none;PADDING-TOP:3pt">
<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Vasile Crăciunescu <<a href="mailto:cro@osgeo.org" target="_blank">cro@osgeo.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Vasile Crăciunescu <<a href="mailto:cro@osgeo.org" target="_blank">cro@osgeo.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:52<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Bruce Bannerman <><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Invitation to participate in the OSGeo membership consultations<br>
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<div>Dear Bruce,<br>
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As an existing OSGeo Charter Member, you have been invited to participate in the 2015 OSGeo membership consultations.<br>
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To participate, please click on the link below.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Vasile ()<br>
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