[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Voting for new OSGeo Charter Members open until6th June 2008

[Allan Doyle]

Same here. I can't see leaving three out in the cold.

By the way, I think it may be time for me to "retire" from Charter  
Member status since my geo-being has changed to the point where I'm  
pretty far removed from the OSGeo mainstream (no, I'm not using  
proprietary software!).

	Allan

On May 30, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Steve Lime wrote:

> Looking at the list I was thinking the exact same thing and would  
> support a blanket invitation
> as well...
>
> Steve
>
>>>> On 5/30/2008 at 3:16 PM, in message
> <cdf6db500805301316q378f3830lb9e02cc5ad653439 at mail.gmail.com>, "P  
> Kishor"
> <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM,  <jo at frot.org> wrote:
>>> dear all,
>>>
>>> The list of nominations for new OSGeo Charter Members is here:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008
>>>
>>> From today until the end of Friday 6th June 2008, votes for
>>> 15 new Charter Members are being accepted at cro at osgeo.org
>>
>> This is a great list. Each one of those listed would be (well,  
>> already
>> is) a great asset to the OSGeo cause and community. There are only 18
>> on that list, so that means 3 will be left out. My vote? Charter-ify
>> all 18 of them.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> * Only Charter Members are eligible to vote!
>>> * Please email cro at osgeo.org with a list of names 15 lines
>>>  long (one vote per new member slot)
>>> * Votes can be for 15 different people, or the same person
>>>  15 times, or any balance in between.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008 has more links.
>>>
>>> Charter Members are responsible for electing the Board of the
>>> OSGeo Foundation. The initial group of Charter Members was the 25
>>> people in the Free and Open Source Geospatial community who attended
>>> the "startup" meeting of the Foundation in Chicago on 4th Feb. 2006
>>>
>>> This group later selected another 20 Charter Members and they in  
>>> turn
>>> elected the first complete Board in the summer of 2006. In 2007  
>>> another
>>> 15 Charter Members were elected to the Foundation (one stood down).
>>> The current list is at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members
>>>
>>> http://www.osgeo.org/membership explains why the Charter Membership
>>> exists, basically as an attempt to guarantee the ongoing integrity
>>> of the Board as representative of the community at large.
>>> This is seen as more stable, and less liable to "hijack", than
>>> granting a vote in exchange for payment (like the OpenStreetmap  
>>> Foundation)
>>> or in exchange for measurable contribution (like Wikimedia's  
>>> Foundation)
>>>
>>> This year's nominations again, for those who read this far:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008
>>>
>>>
>>> jo
>>> --
>>>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

-- 
Allan Doyle
Director of Technology
MIT Museum
+1.617.452.2111