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

[Chris Holmes]

Do the bylaws say chairperson of the committee?  I think it might be 
wise to allow the 'officer', the person who reports to the board, be 
someone other than the chairperson, ie the person who does the leading 
of the project.  Like if the leader of the project isn't interested in 
reporting to the board, just wants to get their work done, and can then 
designate someone else to do the reporting...

Chris

Rich Steele wrote:
> 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
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> and
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>>>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
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>>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
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>>similar soon.  I think it is important for each "official" committee
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> to
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>>have a web page listing their members, mandate and some working
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> details.
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>>I think the committee chairs should be reporting back to the board
>>periodically, as we had from DanielB re: WebCom last week.  We also
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> have
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>>generally had at least one board member on each subcommittee which
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> helps
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>>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
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> public
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>>geodata) group, and the curriculum group.  They are essentially still
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> in
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>>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
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> page
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>>at:
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>>   http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Committees
>>
>>Best regards,
>>--
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Chris Holmes
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