<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:03 PM, 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">
Arnulf,<br>
Thank you for moving this thread along.<br>
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In answering question "why make the role of a charter member stronger?":<br>
I see it more as "increasing the profile" of our voted members, rather than "increasing the role". It is a service we provide to our OSGeo members to help them be recognised as "authoritative" and "experts" by conference organisers, as conference organisers are continually asking for experts to attract audiences. That is why Arnulf is continually asked to speak at conferences. If we can raise the profile of our voted members, giving them a title that conference organisors can latch onto, then we can spread the task of evangelising Open Source to a much wider base.<br>
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Note: I'm not including "Negotiating MOU" type tasks in this "General Ambassador" role. I suggest this be addressed by a "Negotiator" role (if we define it at all), and as Jeroen suggests, the board could assign that responsibility to a trusted member of the community (possibly on a case by case basis).<br>
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As a side note: Could we please start drawing this thread through to conclusion. If there are board members who object, could you please put your objections forward, preferably with a suggested alternative.<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote>In the spirit of trying to move this along- I don't object to the role, but want the procedure to be as simple as possible. Personally I'd rather it was done on a case-by-case basis than anything more formal than that, but I'd also like to see it limited to charter members to give people the incentive to have get more involved in OSGeo. If it's not limited I don't see how we can make an informed decision about whether someone is going to be a good representative or not. I do understand that other's have objections to this though, which is why it's harder than you might think to get a firm decision...<div>
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