[Board] effective committees, do-ocracy, metrit-ocracy, and veto votes

[Jody Garnett]

At the project level we do have -1 as a veto - with the provision that the
"-1" must provide an alternate plan and/or resources to make it happen.

This makes providing a -1 costly, but also productive / positive /
collaborative.

--
Jody Garnett

On 21 September 2016 at 05:52, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm concerned that some OSGeo committees are squashing enthusiasm and
> reducing the effectiveness of our most vibrant OSGeo volunteers, by
> over-use of the "-1" veto vote.
>
> OSGeo is a volunteer organisation. It works at its best as a
> "Merit-ocracy" and "Do-ocracy". This is where people with great ideas
> support and encourage the people who step up to do things.
>
> In a healthy community, leaders will lend advice, and will either step up
> to work through an issue, or will defer to the opinion of the person doing
> the work.
>
> Of late, I've observed volunteers doing a lot of hard work, then being
> vetoed by people in authority, with minimal hands-on support provided to
> the volunteer. This smells like a command-and-control management model,
> which doesn't work very well in a volunteer organisation.
>
> I think with a few tweaks within our committees to our management mindset
> we can re-invigorate our volunteer enthusiasm.
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
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>
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