Fw: [Board] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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One of the board members has regular objections to making the Charter
Members have a stronger role in OSGeo. I did not understand the
rationale and had to ask. The answer is straight forward purely based
on community considerations: By making Charter Member roles more
important we alienate / reduce the role of the "regular member" which
is something we always strive to avoid (being broadly open, etc.).

So instead of increasing the role of the Charter Members we might
rather want to strive for more involvement of all members (including
Charter Members, ex Board Members, honorary members and whatever else
we might come up with).

Makes sense?

Let's ask the other way round: What good would it do make the role of
Charter Members (and ex boad members, etc.) stronger?

Cheers,
Arnulf

On 16.05.2012 12:12, Ravi Kumar wrote:
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> ----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Ravi Kumar
> <ravivundavalli48 at yahoo.com> *To:* osgeo-discuss
> <discuss-request at lists.osgeo.org> *Sent:* Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:44
> PM *Subject:* Re: [Board] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo
> Ambassador role
> 
> +1  Markus In due course, evolution of OSGeo will need more
> participation from the Charter members. The charter members who are
> expected to elect the board at the helm of OSGeo can be tapped for
> more involvement. So are the ex-board members. Ravi
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*From:* Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
> *To:* mpg at flaxen.com *Cc:* discuss at lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo-Board
> <board at lists.osgeo.org>; marketing <marketing at lists.osgeo.org> 
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 12, 2012 2:34 AM *Subject:* Re: [Board] Re:
> [OSGeo-Discuss] Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role
> 
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com 
> <mailto:mpg at flaxen.com>> wrote: ...
>> The board is elected by the charter members to make policy. When
>> the
> system was set up, it was not the intent that charter members had
> any role other than to preserve the nature and mission of the
> foundation by electing appropriate board members.
> 
> Things may evolve: A a founding member of OSGeo I was always very
> interested to keep the community strongly involved. This implies
> that with the years charter members may obtain a stronger role than
> "just" electing the board members.
> 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction
> 
> What others do: 
> http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#asf-members
> 
> ... but Jody has just send around some links...
> 
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