[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

[Alex Leith]

I'm not sure how we'd measure participation as a gate to membership.

One alternative is to have an opt-in requirement each year, which will wean
out the disengaged. That could just be a 'click this link in an email' type
form. I would have thought a nominal annual fee, again, without
auto-renewal, would work, but from what I hear it doesn't make much
difference with OSM, and adds the requirement for us to set up a charging
mechanism.

On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 06:18, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> <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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