[Board] Added "OSGeo Charter Responsibilities"

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2014/08/19 8:32, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Further to Jeff and Venka's suggestion that nominees should need more than
> 5% of YES votes, I'd like to ask:
> "Under what conditions should a candidate be denied OSGeo Charter
> Membership?"
Membership is denied to those who do not get "Yes" for a sizable part
(simple majority) of the electorate.
> I feel any person who is perceived to be working against the ideals of
> OSGeo should be denied membership, such as people pushing for a hostile
> take over. I'd be surprised to see such people fitting OSGeo Positive
> Attributes [1].
Working against ideals of the foundation is non-issue if one is not a 
elected member of
the foundation. The problem arises when a CM, elected by a sizable 
number of the electorate,
works against the ideals of the Foundation. In that case appropriate 
steps needs
to be taken (in consultation with the electorate to "disqualify" the member
form being part of the foundation. Whether someone possess "Positive 
Attributes"
or not will also be reflected if/when a sizable part of the electorate 
feels the same way.

If we want an very "non-restrictive" selection criteria, there will not 
be a need for an
election process.

I (and, I think,  some others who have expressed their views on this 
thread) are
wary of the present criteria of setting "Yes" vote requirement at 5%.

Venka


>
> There may be some people looking for the prestige of charter membership,
> who are not intending to contribute to OSGeo. These people probably
> wouldn't fit OSGeo Positive Attributes [1], but even if they did, they
> would not likely harm the goals of OSGeo. I don't see an issue with
> accidentally including a few people from this category in our membership.
>
> Everyone else who fits OSGeo Positive Attributes [1] will be valuable to
> include in our membership and it would be detrimental to accidentally
> exclude (and potentially offend) these people due to overly restrictive
> selection criteria.
>
> As such, I'd be wary of changing criteria much from what we already have.
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Jorge Sanz <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> 2014-08-18 22:47 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> Do you mean that seconding should be a requirement ? Wouldn't make it
>>> complicated to extend the community to countries where there are not
>> already so
>>> many Charter members ? And with so many nominations, that might
>> transform the
>>> discuss mailing list into a high volume list where we get lost in the
>> flow of
>>> emails.
>>>
>>> Even
>>>
>>>> Also thinking out loud on this, with so many nominations this year I
>>>> (and from what I was told later, many others did this as well) relied on
>>>> seconds/support emails for several of my votes.  If a nominee does not
>>>> have any visible support (other than the original nomination) from any
>>>> other community member, should that nomination be automatically rejected
>>>> by the CRO?  Just wondering the community's thoughts on that.
>>>>
>>>> -jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>> Just adding a requirement to have a decent profile on the wiki could
>> help. The candidate can put there helpful information so the
>> nomination can be more a personal statement by the nominator, with
>> only the highlights and not a complete resume. The work then is
>> balanced between the nominator and the candidate. That ads a little
>> bit of extra work for candidates but reflects better the interest of
>> him/her to be a member, no?
>>
>> On the other hand, knowing before the vote the support to the
>> candidate by other members is a valuable information, how to get it
>> *easily* but without adding too much overhead to the community is a
>> challenge. Maybe a mailing list is not the best tool for this,
>> thinking on something like the *thumbs-up* of social networks, reddit
>> or stack overflow, mmm
>>
>> --
>> Jorge Sanz
>> http://www.osgeo.org
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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