[OSGeo-Board] Minutes of Second Meeting Posted

[Frank Warmerdam]

Rich Steele wrote:
> One further follow up from the board meeting--
> 
> In reviewing the proposed bylaws, both Frank and Markus had some issues
> with the provisions of Article VI governing the establishment of Project
> Steering Committees.  Principally the comments revolved around:
> 
> - the requirement that the board appoint all members of PSCs
> - limiting PSC memberships to one year terms
> 
> I made some slight modifications to Article VI to permit the chairperson
> of the PSC to staff up the committee, and to delete the reference to the
> one year term.  See changes here:
> 
> http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php?title=Draft_OSGEO_Bylaws&diff=1734
> &oldid=1576
> 
> I think at least the first of these changes is necessary because thus
> far (and conceivably going forward), the board has only appointed the
> chair of committees but has not appointed any other members.  I had
> hoped to implement these changes after the discussion at today's
> meeting, but a motion was made to adopt the bylaws before I had a chance
> to do so.
> 
> Do any of you have an issue with these two small modifications?  If not,
> I would propose we make them in the final "approved" version of the
> bylaws.

Rich,

I am "+1" on approving the adjusted bylaws as "the" bylaws.  Once we publish
the Bylaws I do think we will need to add an FAQ addressing how the PSC's
will work in practice.

Best regards,
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