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

[Daniel Morissette]

I'd like to add that regular and charter members are invited and 
strongly encouraged to join the various committees of the foundation if 
they want to play a stronger role. Note that joining a committee and 
making a difference implies that you need to get your hands dirty and do 
some work since actions are stronger than words. This is how meritocracy 
works.

If you want to have a say in the definition of the OSGeo Ambassador role 
then join the Marketing committee. If you wan to change the way we 
manage our service infrastructure join SAC, if you want to put your two 
cents in the finances join the finance committee, if you want to 
influence the way we deal with new projects join the incubator 
committee, etc.

Those committees have been in place since the inception of OSGeo and 
those who have put their time and energy into them are those who have 
had the most influence on what OSGeo is today. This is the way things 
work today and is stronger than any new roles we might want to assign to 
charter members.

My 0.02$

Daniel


On 12-05-16 9:16 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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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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