[OSGeo-Edu] Edu group governance proposal

[Mueller, Thomas]

I vote yes, especially on the breakdown Charlie suggests at least for US

Tom

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On Dec 27, 2011, at 9:09 AM, "Charles Schweik" <cschweik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In our last virtual meeting, we briefly discussed Tom's idea of having
> a new group governance or management model that would be around a
> "board of co-chairs" or something like that, with people representing
> various geographic regions. The group on the virtual meeting seemed
> general receptive to this idea. The idea would be that these "regional
> edu leaders"  might make up an edu-board that would be expected to
> meet regularly in our virtual meetings. I think this would be good for
> academics and others in that you could put this position on your CV as
> service to the profession.
> 
> Let me suggest we start with trying to define geographic regions, then
> we could do some kind of volunteering or nominations for people to be
> edu co-chairs of these regions. Countries might be a reasonable unit,
> except that perhaps for relatively large areas we have regions within
> countries maybe? So for example, Western US, Mid-US, Eastern US?
> 
> What do people think? Please vote on this proposal (+1, -1) and/or
> suggest regions for your part of the world.
> 
> Thanks all
> 
> Charlie
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