<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hello John, Cameron and fellow OSGeo Oceania community members,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m in two minds as to how to address this email:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- Firstly, I’m happy to see some momentum around OSGeo-Oceania.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- Secondly, I’m very disappointed to see that we have what appears to be a fait accompli [1] presented to us.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have not seen any suitable discussion on how we want to establish a local community, the rules that we want to work to, how we are going to select and reselect our community leaders etc, etc.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The last that I recall was when I dug out an older email where I listed a number of concerns related to creating a legal entity about five months ago [2]. I have not seen these addressed, or had the opportunity to participate in the follow up discussion.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Perhaps I have missed all of this discussion? </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I have looked through the Oceania email archives, but cannot see the relevant discussion. So I wasn’t imagining not seeing it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Can someone please outline how we have arrived at this point without suitable community engagement and discussion? </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Kind regards,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Bruce</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">[1] <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fait-accompli">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fait-accompli</a> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;">[2] </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oceania/2019-March/001993.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oceania/2019-March/001993.html</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 2 Aug 2019, at 19:31, John Bryant <<a href="mailto:johnwbryant@gmail.com">johnwbryant@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I agree with this approach. <br></div><div><br></div><div>My feeling is that board discussions should default to using this mailing list except where they're sensitive, ie. about specific people and/or incidents, or relate to other confidential matters eg. financial arrangements with partners. It's valuable to the community to see how we operate, not only for accountability, but also because it allows people to watch over time, and potentially become contributors.</div><div><br></div><div>Meeting notes/minutes are already published here: <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oceania">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oceania</a></div><div><br></div><div>Re:opening board meetings to the public, I'm generally in favour. There will be times when confidential discussions need to happen, but these are the exception rather than the rule. If the board is OK with this, maybe we can do this for next meeting and see how we go?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>John<br></div></div>
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