[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[Bruce Bannerman]

Hi John,

I’ll try and have a look and provide comments tomorrow.

Sorry, other priorities at the moment.

Can the latest version of the doc still be found at the URL at [1] below?

Bruce

Bruce


> On 17 Sep 2019, at 21:55, 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 <https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_6Ru8Xy5jGIuWXysuIJQwQonmjhtlpmHbqVwtOsUNA>_______________________________________________
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