[Board] Added "OSGeo Charter Responsibilities"

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jeff,

On 2014/08/16 2:06, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Venka,
>
> I agree, that the new Board should consider assigning more 
> responsibilities to our Charter Members.  What potential types of 
> "crucial issues" could you see involving the Charter Members down the 
> road?  Do you have any examples?

About "crucial issues" there a many, one of the recent example was the 
new rules for
Charter Member (CM) Election. I think that the rules of the CM election 
needs a broad
consensus from the membership and cannot be changed by board decision 
alone.
How can the board change the rules of CM elections when it is CMs that  
elect
the board in the first place?

With the revised election process item 6 [1], 5% vote of charter 
membership to become CM
is making the hurdle so low that it makes the whole election process 
(one that Jorge has worked
so very hard) a waste of time and effort. Can someone point me to a 
volunteer organization
where one could be elected  by getting mere 5% vote from the electorate?

I suggest that the new board that will start functioning soon to revisit 
CM election rules
(which, I think, is a "crucial issue") and after seek broader consensus 
from the charter members
(through electronic voting of necessary) re-formulate these rules.

Please note that I raise the issue about a process and not against any 
individual.
I am very pleased to see great new team of CM has entered OSGeo, I am 
also glad
to see the excellent list of nominees for the Board elections.

Venka

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014#Nominations

P.S. I could have made my views on the new CM election rules earlier. I 
did not realize
that rules has changed until the election process had started and 
refrained from expressing
my views until the elections were over. Perhaps there are others who 
feel the same as me
and I urge them to speak up now, so that we could make our community better.

>
> -jeff
>
>
>
>
> On 2014-08-15 10:39 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
>>
>> As I have mentioned on many occasions before, I hope that our Charter
>> Members will be assigned more responsibilities in future decision making
>> on some crucial issues. Now that we have tested our new voting system,
>> it could also be used to seek broad based consensus form our excellent
>> Charter Membership on some some of these crucial issues.
>>
>> Venka
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