[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[Kerry Smyth]

No objects

Kerry Smyth

 

From: Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of John Bryant
Sent: Monday, 23 September 2019 4:30 PM
To: Oceania at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

 

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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