[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[John Bryant]

Hi all, time to steer this membership discussion to completion. At last
Thursday's board meeting, and in subsequent discussion, it was suggested to
frame this as a policy the board can adopt, with an aim to having it
finished by next week.

The draft membership policy doc [1] is getting pretty close, but needs some
wordsmithing, a review (re-write?) of the "positive attributes" section,
and there are likely a few points yet to discuss.

I've highlighted a couple:

   - are we happy with a 2-tier membership - one that consists of a
   self-identified cohort of people, with a low barrier to entry, and no
   particular rights & responsibilities; and one that has a slightly higher
   threshold (ie nomination & positive attributes), and includes a few rights
   & responsibilities?
   - how do we establish our initial charter membership (or whatever we
   call it)? board plus 2018 & 2019 conference committees? add people who we
   know are contributors? canvass for nominations from the community?

I'll find some time over the next couple of days to do some wordsmithing,
if anyone else wishes to help with this, feel free. Comments and discussion
encouraged in this thread and in the doc.

I propose this approximate timeline:

   - Sunday 22nd: finish draft
   - Monday 23rd: review by our professional advisers to ensure we're not
   doing anything that is difficult to implement, and to help us understand
   whether it will require changes to our constitution
   - Tuesday 24th: motion to adopt

Cheers
John

[1]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_6Ru8Xy5jGIuWXysuIJQwQonmjhtlpmHbqVwtOsUNA
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