[OSGeo-Board] Welcome for New Board Members

[Dave McIlhagga]

Hi everyone,

I too am very excited about contributing.

As some of you have probably noticed, I have not been very involved in 
OSGEO activities since Chicago, but now that we've gotten a lot of 
changes at DM completed with the start-up of MapGears in Chicoutimi, I 
should be able to start committing time to this effort again.

Looking forward to the important work of the next months.

Dave



Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> 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,
> 
> 
> 
> 
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