[FOSS4G-Oceania] MOTION: ratify governance doc as Terms of Reference for a new committee

[adam steer]

Hey all

I had interpreted the motion as ‘tidy up any loose ends’ (finalise) the
document and then ratify it. But do any tidying quickly.

Happy to have all my comments saved for iteration 2 - mainly around
trusting future LOCs to do the right thing and put a small wall of
invitation to meddle between the Board and the LOC - while retaining the
line of responsibility.

re. ‘Board vs something else’ - I thought we’d covered that at the meeting
Friday and arrived at Board. Agree with Daniel here, let’s let it lie.

re. spending - that can also be kicked down the road.

On a meta-admin front - can I ask we all make a tiny change to how we
address documents: If we think something could be different, please provide
a suggestion the alternative. I have historically been awful at doing that,
but I will endeavour to always do so now.

In that spirit I’ve just closed all my comments on the ToR document, made a
duplicate and named it ‘iteration DRAFT’, then put it into a folder called
’ToR working drafts’. We can comment like made on that, iterating toward
v2.0 (by the way, if that is all to unilateral, feel free to undo it)

…so we can go ahead and ratify the current doc, and keep the new copy alive
with ideas.

Perhaps an early task of FOSS4G Oceania will be to host a gitlab someplace
for these docs…

Cheers



On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 10:49, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree that the new suggestions should be reserved for a future update.
>
> To address Alex's comment:
>
> > I'm not sure that using "Board of Directors" is the right term. A
> board, in my understanding, is a formal group. And a director is someone
> with personal liability for the proper running of an organisation.
>
> In this case, we have every intention of creating a formal group as laid
> out in this terms of reference, with the responsibilities and expectations
> listed. In the short interim we have an informal group with the same
> responsibilities and expectations.
>
> To temporarily have another set of people, titles and arrangements while
> we work toward this only adds more overhead. We can delay appointing a
> secretary until we know what the requirements are of the determined
> organisation structure (e.g. secretary might be required to reside in a
> specific state) but aside from that, I think we can and should continue to
> move forward under these terms, and that's what I understand the +1s to be
> in favour of over the weekend.
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