[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[Cameron Shorter]

Greg, I'm proposing that in a 1 level membership the only barrier be 
email list participation or some other OSGeo/OSM activity, and voting 
for board. I don't think people will be wanting to self identify with 
anything lower.

On 24/9/19 6:13 am, Greg Lauer wrote:
> The problem with this proposal is that we have barrier for general 
> membership. I still support the 2 tier model and comfortable that we 
> can manage the logistics with out too much issue
>
> Greg
>
>> On 23 Sep 2019, at 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:
>>       o take nominations for new members
>>       o use an eligibility threshold that balances accessibility with
>>         genuine engagement
>>       o 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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