[Board] Some food for thought from Directions magazine ahead of our board meeting

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Michael,

On 2012/01/07 12:02, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
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> I have heard a few time about the perceived lack of diversity on the
> board.  The latest elected charter members I think reflects a change
> there (it would be nice if someone could run some statistics on that)
> -- beyond that, can you make some specific suggestions as to how we
> might address your concerns?

I think I have made several specific suggestions before;

1) Retire Charter Members who did not vote for 3 consecutive years

2) Assign more responsibilities to Charter Members rather then
making them only vote for OSGeo Board and new Charter Member
elections.

3) Have Charter Members vote on crucial issues

4) OSGeo Board Members can update their views of
role of Charter Members in the Wiki page that you
requested to be created
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction

5) Set up an Advisory Committee comprising of members
form within and outside OSGeo. These members could
be from Academia, Government, intergovernmental
organizations and charitable foundations. The role
would be to evaluate our performance since 2006
and suggest where and how we should be heading
in 2015. Such an Advisory Committee could work with the present
OSGeo Board to formulate "OSGeo - Vision 2020" that could be
presented at FOSS4G2012.

6) Bring out the "OSGeo-2011 Executive Report from the President"
and also for subsequent years.

7) Approve and publish the OSGeo Budget for 2010 and 2011
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2010
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2011
are still drafts

8) Spend funds to keep teh OSGeo web-site up-to-date.
For example, most of the translation are out of date. Better to remove
them and show links to language/regional chapter pages.

Best

Venka

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>> -----Original Message----- From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh
>> Raghavan Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 6:34 PM To:
>> board at lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Board] Some food for thought
>> from Directions magazine ahead of our board meeting
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>> Chris and all, .... On 2012/01/05 20:21,
>> christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
>>> so let's concentrate on real issues instead -- issues like the
>>> fact that OSGeo's message is so poorly delivered that it's not
>>> distinct from the commercially-targeted offerings that OpenGeo
>>> has.
>> I agree with your statement about OSGeo's message being poorly
>> delivered. The delivery could be improved by having an OSGeo Board
>> that is representative of the wider community (Academia,
>> Government, intergovernmental organizations, charitable
>> foundations, etc). 88% of current OSGeo Board members own or work
>> for private geospatial businesses in the northwestern hemisphere
>> and the remaining 12% in the northeastern hemisphere.
>>
>> I think that formulation of a broader vision for the OSGeo
>> Foundation requires a more  unbiased representation of the
>> community in the OSGeo Board. Recent requests for more (direct)
>> involvement of Charter Members in the OSGeo decision making process
>> need to be considered seriously. FOSS4G Conference, the present
>> OSGeo flagship was born before OSGeo came into existence. GeoServer
>> and OpenLayers are among the few new thing that has happened after
>> OSGeo was born.  Let us celebrate (and learn from) these new
>> successes and deeply introspect on the panacea for some of our
>> shortcomings.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
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