[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[Kerry Smyth]

Hi John, Adam,

I’m not speaking against the opening up to all. 

I’m just saying if you can self-nominate, then nomination by someone else seems superfluous red tape.

If I want to join then I apply.

Why would someone else want to nominate me and then the Membership Working Group have to confirm that I want to be nominated?

I don’t get the purpose of the third party involvement.

 

Kerry Smyth

 

From: Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of adam steer
Sent: Friday, 11 October 2019 10:34 AM
To: John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

 

Hi John, Kerry

 

this model of ‘anyone can sign up’ also fits the broader OSMF and OSGeo models. In OSMF you just pay, in OSGeo you go to a website and create yourself an account.

 

Thanks everyone for their hard work on this document, I think it is a wonderful result from a series of well considered compromises and thoughtful, experience-based input.

 

Regards

 

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 10:21, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com <mailto:johnwbryant at gmail.com> > wrote:

>From Kerry: 

COMMENT: If anyone can nominate new members - can you self-nominate?  In which case isn't this an application for membership? Is the intention that the nominator is already a member, because this is not specified.

It does seem odd that anybody in the whole world can nominate another person for membership.

 

Thanks Kerry. This was intentionally introduced on 27 Sep when we attempted to resolve some disagreement by consolidating two membership tiers into a single tier. Since one key idea is to keep a low barrier to entry, while still maintaining some control over the membership process, this was changed from "any member may nominate..." to "anybody can nominate..." so that we're avoiding an "inner circle" situation.

 

I don't think it's especially odd that anybody in the whole world can nominate (including self-nomination). If someone meets our eligibility criteria, and wishes to become a member, then we should welcome them as members regardless of who they know.

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