[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: Governance

[adam steer]

Great stuff John, Alex, Greg. Looking forward to the discussion tomorrow!

To anyone lurking on the list thinking ‘I’d love to have a say but…’ - dive
in. Turn up at the meeting and bring your ideas! We’re all learning as we
go.



On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 17:47, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> My only comment is though I am very comfortable that the current 2018
> committee (for want of a better word) has a mandate to form an executive,
> in a similar vein to John;s comments,I would suggest that we make it an
> 'interim' executive, that is dissolved once/if a formal entity/structure is
> created. Of course it would be quite likely that the members of the interim executive
> would become the formal executive, but it allows the 'membership' (again
> for want of a better word) to decide on the composition as per any proposed
> terms of reference etc. It would also allow us, as per John comments above,
> to encourage diversity in the board composition once the structure is in
> place.
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:12 PM John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good point re: a formal org. My take is there is sufficient support for
>> the idea to at least determine clear options. I like Greg's suggestion of
>> forming a small working group to research the options, consult, and form a
>> recommendation we can implement. In the meantime, we need a group to vest
>> authority in...
>>
>> My reasoning for including step 2 is this: we've typically referred to
>> this group as the '*FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018 organising committee*', it
>> needs a fresh mandate & identity, and there may be some people who wish to
>> retire (and possibly some desire to bring in new people, eg. New Zealanders
>> or Pacific Islanders?). However, this could perhaps be easily achieved by
>> appointing a new group from those of us who wish to continue serving, and
>> calling it by a new name with a new mandate, and making some provision for
>> new members.
>>
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