[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[John Bryant]

At the last board meeting, we talked about reviewing the "Positive
Attributes" concept from OSGeo, and re-articulating something along the
same lines for our community. Here's the OSGeo passage, any thoughts?
Comments & suggestions welcome.

Recommended membership selection criteria include:
>
>    - Members should believe in the general goals of the Foundation. To
>    support and promote the use of free and open source geospatial software,
>    education and data in a collaborative manner.
>    - Previous participation in or support of OSGeo activities
>    - The person should already have made a contribution to free and open
>    source geospatial software, education or open data.
>    - The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the
>    Foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way
>    that gets the Foundation going.
>    - Members should be prepared to work constructively and positively
>    towards the goals of the Foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
>
> Membership nominations should strive to promote diversity:
>
>    - Nominate members representing a diversity of geographic regions,
>    diversity of projects, diversity of programming languages.
>    - Nominate members representing and diversity of interests (e.g.,
>    corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).
>    - Nominate members representing a diversity of humanity including
>    gender and race
>
>
On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 14:55, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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