[Board] [OSGeo-Conf] OSGeo Oceania TGP request - please act as soon as possible

[Adam Steer]

Thanks Steven, Maria

Looking in the bylaws [1] and using the same rules as the board, it
seems we need a quorum of the committee (at least half the members
[2]) and a majority in the quorum. Taking into account Steven, Eli and
Till's retirement a quorum is 7, and we have 6 active (have voted)
here. At least one more person is needed, along with their vote.

I'd like to set a deadline to vote at 12 December, 16:00 UTC.

That deadline is because this decision really is overdue, and the
board meets on 12 December, 16:00 UTC (https://meet.jit.si/OsgeoBoard
) - I will add an agenda item for this discussion and seeing if we can
get a resolution, please come along! A surge in votes before the
meeting - a decision taken actively  by this committee - will make the
discussion a lot easier :D

What does this committee think about Steven's question? I see three
questions in total:

1. is this type of decision (travel grants) one which the committee no
longer wants to be responsible for?
2. Steven's question - is the committee viable?
3. how can we help make the committee viable / functioning again - can
the board do anything?

Thanks,

Adam

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/, section 4.5
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members

On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 at 16:14, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's a good question
>
> I would like to say motion passed,but I am not sure what are the conditions to pass.
>
> El jue., 8 dic. 2022 16:08, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>> Note that 3 of the voters have since stood down from the committee (Till, Eli and me) so I am not sure whether our votes still count.
>>
>> Is it reasonable to ask whether CC is still viable/functioning?
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>> On 8 Dec 2022, at 13:53, Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Thanks for your responses! So far, collating all discussions so far
>> including Alex's original request, I see:
>>
>> Vasile +1
>> Maria +1
>> Michael Terner +1
>> Mark Iliffe +1
>> Msilikale +1
>> Darrell Fuhriman: +1
>> Till Adams +1
>> Steven Feldman +1
>> Eli Adam +0 (due to CC lack of engagement)
>>
>> So we have 9 votes from 17 listed members [1], 8 positive and one neutral.
>>
>> How should we proceed with collecting votes from remaining committee
>> members - should we e-mail people individually?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members
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