[Board] Executive Committee Proposal

[Cameron Shorter]

On 18/10/2012 8:41 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     2. Lets expand the group of people involved in decision making to
>     include committee chairs. I think this needs more discussion. I'm
>     wary of introducing another level of decision making unless there
>     are strong reasons as to why the current system is not working.
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> Folks,
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> OK, all feedback so far expresses concern with the addition
> of the marketing, incubation, sac and conference chairs to
> the executive committed, so I've removed that from the
> proposal while leaving in the ability of the executive committee
> to add members to itself at will.
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> Hopefully that will make the proposal less controversial.
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> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Executive_Committee_Terms_Of_Reference
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Frank, while I'm open to potentially progressing this motion at some 
point, I'm still not seeing the value of expanding the Exec Committee. 
In particular:
1. What is not working with the current process, or how would adding 
more people make the Exec Committee more effective?

2. I'm very wary of providing a committee with the responsibility of 
delegating responsibility to a select person or group of people. It is 
fraught with danger of accusations of favourtism, or people's feelings 
being hurt for not being considered, or the board just accepting 
everyone because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

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Cameron Shorter
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