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

[Arnulf Christl]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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,

+1 from Arnulf to add the lazy consensus model to our decision structure 
in the bylaws. Is this a motion?

All the same I think that the signed petition now is even better off as 
it has been unanimously approved by all board members. It will probably 
be a little more difficult to do when we are nine (I almost wasn't in 
time myself just this morning). Do we have a proxy-model that can take 
care of situations where poeple are not available for a longer stretch 
of time (that would be anything above 48h)?

Arnulf.