[OSGeo-Board] Welcome for New Board Members

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Frank and other BoD,

Very excited to be a part of this great team.
Look forward to working with you all in the
coming months and hoping to serve OSGEO
to the best of my ability.

Kind regards

Venka

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Dave, Jo, Venkatesh and Mark,
> 
> Welcome to the OSGeo board!
> 
> I have manually subscribed you all to the main board list
> (board at board.osgeo.org) which is public as well as the board private
> list (board-priv at board-priv.osgeo.org) which is restricted to us for
> reading and posting.
> 
> Our next board meeting is scheduled for this Friday at 8:00am PST.
> Details are at:
> 
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Fifth_Board_Meeting
> 
> Please feel free to add agenda items, and drop the board an email if you
> won't be able to attend the meeting.
> 
> The board meetings are by phone per the details on the wiki page.  We
> also use IRC as a secondary channel, but by Delaware law we are required
> to make binding motions by voice.
> 
> As you likely know we have named officers which include:
>  President - Frank Warmerdam
>  Treasurer - Gary Lang
>  Secretary - Rich Steele
> 
> Also, all the official committee chairs are officers (vice presidents).
> 
> I am a non-executive president, which means essentially the position is
> primarily a figure head for the board.  We have been rotating the chairing
> of the meetings but anyone can add items to the agenda in advance of the
> meeting.  We try to achieve unanimous agreement on all decisions though 
> that
> isn't strictly necessary.
> 
> Daniel Brookshier is our Community Manager from CollabNet which means
> that he is paid to spend some portion of his day working on behalf of
> OSGeo on a variety of tasks.  Amoung other things he is our primary
> authority on use of the CollabNet platform, head of the Web Committee,
> and so forth.
> 
> The board public list should be used for most board discussions, but
> the board-priv list is available if there is a concern about
> confidentiality.  While we don't have particularly fixed rules on what
> should be on board vs. board-priv, I would ask everyone to avoid quoting
> anything from a board-priv list on the public list.
> 
> If you dig around there are currently OSGeo Corporate Bylaws in place
> that essentially allow a board majority to do anything.  It is anticipated
> that by September we will try and put in place more detailed Bylaws
> which may place some additional limitations on the board.  For instance,
> things like requiring a super-majority to change the bylaws, or perhaps
> to disband a PSC (project committee).
> 
> I would encourage the new board members to review the old minutes to see
> some of the official acts we have already taken.
> 
> I am very pleased to work with all of you, and I'm sure we will accomplish
> a lot in the months to come.
> 
> Best regards,