[OSGeo-Discuss] Board and Representational tasks

[Cameron Shorter]

Arnulf,
I am delighted to hear about your light workload on the OSGeo Board. It 
gives me confidence that OSGeo is working better than I originally expected.

I vote for board members I trust.
I trust visible, respected OSGeo developers and evangelists. These 
people are always over committed.
So I want the board member's job to be limited to overseeing the healthy 
running of OSGeo so they can continue their existing activities.

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Oh, and for the record,  I'm +1 for encouraging voters to select board 
diversity, -1 for mandating it. Which seems to be the majority sentiment.

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Tim,
>
> I'm in agreement with most of your comments except this one:
>
> Tim Bowden wrote:
>>  Personally I think charter membership should be
>> opened up to anyone who who wants to apply and can find an existing
>> member or two to second their application.  I realise part of the
>> rationale for the current structure was to avoid the organisation being
>> hijacked, but it would seem that OSGeo has a healthy enough community
>> that the risk of that is practically non-existent.  In the (very)
>> unlikely event that happened, the exodus of projects, members and
>> sponsors from the org would make it nothing but a hollow meaningless
>> shell worth nothing to the hijackers.
>>
>
> If all the hijacker wants is to see OSGeo's coordinated efforts fall 
> apart then the "exodus of projects, members and sponsors" would give 
> them exactly what they wanted.
>
> I think the current system of charter membership is a necessary 
> protection that OSGeo needs to maintain, even if it's not perfect.
>
> Daniel


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Cameron Shorter
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