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

[Daniel Brookshier]

I'm  chair of the website committee, but based on those rules, I'll  
give it a board member.

The rule is odd, usually chair is appointed or voted within the  
committee. The board can have a member and even be required, but it  
is not required. I have no problem with the board having a chair on  
each committee, but that does mean that elections need to be in part  
about what committee they will run. This does ensure a sense of duty,  
so nothing wrong with it, just difficult to execute.

Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
214-207-6614

On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:04 PM, 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
> 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,
>> --
>>
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>> 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
>>
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