[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections

[Jeff McKenna]

Also note that I've already planned to discuss elections at the next
Board meeting next week
(http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-05-15)...this likely
woke up the Seven-borg :)


-jeff



On 2014-05-07, 8:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> Folks, there always was a lot of discussion and different opinions
> about how we manage OSGeo membership.
> 
> This usually happened when the elections process had already
> started. After the fact everything quieted down again until - same
> procedure as every year.
> 
> Instead of volunteering to go through the holistically not
> automated process of manually searching 150+ mail addresses,
> verifying individually with people and nudging us through elections
> that nobody really thinks are useful I suggest to start a
> conversation (SIC! not a discussion) [1] on how to change the
> current procedure, because change it needs.
> 
> Before happily conversing away I suggest we all go back to what we 
> already have now and then proceed from there.
> 
> What we have: http://www.osgeo.org/membership official documents
> 
> How we do it: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
> 
> Why it sucks: * It is a bit incestuous * Hard to maintain * Always
> ''feels'' a bit fishy * Charter Members have nothing to do most of
> the time * (Appears to) exclude normal people * tbc ... please add
> your personal offense
> 
> Have fun, Eight minus one
> 
> 
> [1] Why not a discussion? Because discussions are usually based on 
> predefined opinions of which a single one can "win" whereas all
> others "lose". Instead I'd like to first see an animated collection
> of ideas and later on a fleshing out process to find a new way of -
> well, what exactly? Having folks become OSGeo members.
> 
>