[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[adam steer]

Maybe we need to figure out what membership means.

Does it mean ' I as a member identify with this community'

' I as a member feel entitled to something from this organisation'

... something else?

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, 18:30 John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for a quite robust discussion on this important topic, it's
> really great to see this much engagement. There seems to be a fair bit of
> discomfort with the two tier model proposed, and I agree that it may
> introduce more complexity than we really want. To move forward, I'd like to
> propose a simplified alternative:
>
>    - We have a single type of membership that confers voting rights.
>    - To ensure a reasonable level of engagement, while protecting the org
>    against bad actors/hostile takeover/etc, we roughly follow this process:
>       - take nominations for new members
>       - use an eligibility threshold that balances accessibility with
>       genuine engagement
>       - include a ratification step that could be done by the board, or a
>       membership working group (TBD)
>
> This doesn't capture all the detail of how this would work, but if it's
> acceptable in broad strokes, I can update our draft policy and we can work
> through the details over next couple of days.
>
> Any objections?
>
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