[OSGeo-Board] Motion to sign Open Letter on publicgeodata.org

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi board,
> 
> this is a nice example for the future (with 9 board members): how to we
> proceed if one or several board members do not vote in time (because
> they are busy, traveling or whatever)?
> 
> In this case we have exactly 2 hours left (now it is Mar 16 2006,
> 09:51:08 CET). Later than that all the work on the statement was
> for nothing since Jo will have to send it in two hours from now.
> 
> Maybe I should read the bylaws again, but right now I don't
> know what to do.

Markus,

My understanding from the bylaws is that we need unanimous clearly stated
agreement to a clearly stated motion for it to be an "act of the board"
outside a voice mediated meeting.

Of course, something like the above motion doesn't need to officially an
act of the board, so we could presumably establish some other rules.

We could, for instance, say that a "consultation with the board" which isn't
an official board act could be accomplished by sending a description of a
planned action to the board list, and as long as no objections are heard
within a certain amount of time the consultation would be considered accepted.
This is roughly the lazy consensus model used by Apache for many things.

For the Mapserver PSC we require at least two +1's and no objections (-1's)
over a two business day period to achieve lazy consensus.

Best regards,
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