[Board] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Nominating Peter Batty as Conference Committe Member

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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On 11.10.2011 18:55, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:
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>> On 07.10.2011 18:27, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
>>> I nominate Peter Batty as a member of the Conference Committee.
>>>
>>> This also implies a +1 once somebody else seconds this nomination.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Arnulf.
>>
>> With 9 out of 14 votes I assume that the motion passes. Welcome Peter.
>>
>> I am cleaning up things and while doing this went through our bylaws [1]
>> where it says how appointing new members works exactly :
>> "The members of each existing Project Steering Committee shall be
>> appointed by the Board of Directors or appointed by the chairperson of
>> the Project Steering Committee as authorized by the Board of Directors."
>>
>> IIRC this committee has the chair appoint new members. Just to stay
>> formally correct...
> 
> Arnulf,
> 
> It might be worth revisiting the bylaws, but in practice the document
> at:
> 
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Committee_Guidelines
> 
> was setup to govern the default behavior of OSGeo committees
> *other* than project steering committees with the assumption that
> project steering committes establish their own consensus roles as
> part of the governance documents.
> 
> If there are concerns about the committee guidelines I would
> suggest the board review them.  Normally they would apply to
> committees including this one, Incubation, Public Geodata,
> WebCom, SAC, and Marketting.
> 
> The Bylaws are unfortunately quite a bit harder to revise, and
> I am not convinced it was a good thing for them to include any
> mention of PSCs.
> 
> cc:ing to board at osgeo.org for awareness since the board
> sets out the broad working rules for committees.
> 
> Best regards,

Thanks for pointing me here. Yes, we need to revise the bylaws and these
guidelines, just like Jo Walsh said in Feb 2007 [1]. :-)

How I love the paper work... Sigh. I added it to the agenda of our next
meeting.

Cheers,
Arnulf.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Bylaws

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