[OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

[Daniel Brookshier]

Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
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On Mar 6, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> I expect many of us will want to be observers (ie. subscribed to  
> the committee
> mailing lists) for several of these projects as a mechanism to keep  
> aware
> of what is going on.
That's the best way to be involved. For the web committee, we will  
start using the PT, so subscribing to our issue list will be a good  
indicator of what is going on.

>
> PS. I'm still a bit unclear on this whole "officer" issue.  In my  
> head I
> still distinguish between fairly independent projects (like GDAL) and
> committees created by the board for a specific area of responsibility
> like viscom, webcom, or the incubator committee.  But in all cases  
> I am
> happy to say that the chair needs to be approved (ie. appointed) by  
> the
> board and is the official conduit for reporting.

That's the way I've seen it work. At some point you have to delegate.