[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: Governance

[John Bryant]

Hear hear... It seems like a super esoteric discussion in many ways, but if
you have any thoughts, please share them... as Adam suggests, we're feeling
our way through this and your opinion counts.

On Thu., 13 Dec. 2018, 5:56 pm adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com wrote:

> Great stuff John, Alex, Greg. Looking forward to the discussion tomorrow!
>
> To anyone lurking on the list thinking ‘I’d love to have a say but…’ -
> dive in. Turn up at the meeting and bring your ideas! We’re all learning as
> we go.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 17:47, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> My only comment is though I am very comfortable that the current 2018
>> committee (for want of a better word) has a mandate to form an executive,
>> in a similar vein to John;s comments,I would suggest that we make it an
>> 'interim' executive, that is dissolved once/if a formal entity/structure is
>> created. Of course it would be quite likely that the members of the interim executive
>> would become the formal executive, but it allows the 'membership' (again
>> for want of a better word) to decide on the composition as per any proposed
>> terms of reference etc. It would also allow us, as per John comments above,
>> to encourage diversity in the board composition once the structure is in
>> place.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:12 PM John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good point re: a formal org. My take is there is sufficient support for
>>> the idea to at least determine clear options. I like Greg's suggestion of
>>> forming a small working group to research the options, consult, and form a
>>> recommendation we can implement. In the meantime, we need a group to vest
>>> authority in...
>>>
>>> My reasoning for including step 2 is this: we've typically referred to
>>> this group as the '*FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2018 organising committee*', it
>>> needs a fresh mandate & identity, and there may be some people who wish to
>>> retire (and possibly some desire to bring in new people, eg. New Zealanders
>>> or Pacific Islanders?). However, this could perhaps be easily achieved by
>>> appointing a new group from those of us who wish to continue serving, and
>>> calling it by a new name with a new mandate, and making some provision for
>>> new members.
>>>
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