[Board] [OSGeo-Standards] Status of the 10 OGC slots for OSGeo members

[Michael P. Gerlek]

At the board meeting last week, I won the job of defining our official process (align with Arnulf and Cameron) -- will likely get to it next week or so.

-mpg



On Aug 29, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Bob Basques <bbasques at sharedgeo.org> wrote:

> All,
> 
> Has any progress been made on this since this thread cooled off?
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> bobb
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> On 08/14/2012 05:55 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>> 
>> If I recall from my original thoughts on this…
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>> * A Token Oversight and Allocation Committee (TOAC) would act on behalf of the OSGeo Board to track allocation, usage, and revocation of the tokens. The TOAC would consist of 2-3 folks, including at least one OSGeo board member and one OGC staff person. TOAC members to volunteer, and should have both OSGeo and OGC experience. OSGeo Board to appoint initial TOAC chair, etc, just like other osgeo committees operate.
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>> * TOAC should rarely require any actual meetings; emails should suffice.
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>> * Requests for tokens would be made by email, with an explanation of what the token would be used for and why OSGeo should care. TOAC should respond promptly to requests.
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>> * Tokens would be allocated allocated for a fixed period of time (6-12 months?). After that period, the token holder would be required to report on his or her use of the token -- nothing onerous, just an email to the TOAC explaining what he is doing in OGC-land and why OSGeo should care.
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>> * Renewals for tokens should be simple -- as long as no one else is waiting for a token, and as long as the token holder is reporting that he is doing Good and Useful Stuff, then another 6-12 months should be granted.
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>> * Token requestors may be any OSGeo community member (need not be a Charter member or whatever).
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>> * TOAC should report regularly (6-12 months) to OSGeo board and OGC mgmt on use of the tokens. Again, just a decent email would suffice.
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>> * In the event of token demand exceeding token supply, the TOAC should arbitrate based on both (1) how long each token has been in use by one person and (2) hope valuable the usage of that token has been. TOAC to use a consensus-based approach, based on token usage supporting the goals of the foundation.
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>> -mpg
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