[OSGeo-Board] Board Nomination email (please review)

[Rich Steele]

Related question:  who is the chair of the website committee?  Note that
the bylaws require that a PSC have as a member "at least one officer or
one director of the corporation, who shall be designated the chairperson
of such committee".  

-Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
> Warmerdam (External)
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:47 AM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Board Nomination email (please review)
> 
> Gary Lang wrote:
> > A meta question:
> >
> > a) who is keeping track of all of these committees?
> > b) who is tracking their progress
> > c) do we have a list of these projects that we've agreed to set up
and
> > pursue?
> >
> > If board people send me a list of the projects/committees they're
> > working on, I'll roll them up and we can start tracking them.
> 
> Gary,
> 
> Each committee seems to be getting it's own subdomain where it
documents
> itself.  So for instance, as chair of the Incubation committee I have
> written up some brief notes at:
>     http://incubator.osgeo.org/
> 
> The web committee has stuff at:
>     http://webcommittee.osgeo.org/
> 
> Hopefully the visibility and promotion committee will also have
something
> similar soon.  I think it is important for each "official" committee
to
> have a web page listing their members, mandate and some working
details.
> 
> I think the committee chairs should be reporting back to the board
> periodically, as we had from DanielB re: WebCom last week.  We also
have
> generally had at least one board member on each subcommittee which
helps
> ensure important issues can be raised and answered at the board level
> when needed.
> 
> There are still some unofficial committees like the free data (or
public
> geodata) group, and the curriculum group.  They are essentially still
in
> the proto-phase and may or may not even have a mailing list.  What
> information
> is available is normally in the wiki for these.
> 
> Hopefully the leftbox on the OSGeo main page will soon have direct or
> indirect links to the various active committees, replacing the wiki
page
> at:
> 
>    http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Committees
> 
> Best regards,
> --
>
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------
--
> ----
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
> warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGF,
http://osgeo.org
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: board-unsubscribe at board.osgeo.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: board-help at board.osgeo.org