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

[Stephen Woodbridge]

So elections are to add to our membership, then elections should support 
that activity. Maybe the conversation needs to be also about what OSGeo 
wants out of its members because that would drive the process of how to 
select them.

-Steve

On 5/7/2014 7:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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> 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.
>
>
> - --
> Exploring Space, Time and Mind
> http://arnulf.us
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