[OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Charter-members] 2020 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

[Emma Hain]

Hi All
Wow these are some really salient points and I am glad we can discuss
this.Part of my responsibility on the board is on the Membership Working
Group.Keep all these coming because I am listening and noting it.
>From above I get:

   1.  Membership model
      1. Do we have a tiered system: voting (nominated Charter members) and
      non-voting OR
      2. Leave it up to community to choose to vote or not (more
      inclusivity)
      3. Revisit the voting clause in 2 elections or you are removed OR
      4. If the voting clause is kept, ask the member if they will want to
      be involved
      5. Driven ASIC model rather than good OS community practices - I will
      look into this - but would love some more directions
   2. Inclusivity
      1. Communicate we are just not for professionals
      2. Run some great community activities with out SIGs and communities
   3. Culture
      1. Define who we want to be and what we want to do. For me, it's
      about community using and developing resources to provide a safe
and happy
      environment. To helping those in need and enriching lives.
(Perhaps you can
      respond to what you want the culture to be?)

So from this, I will take the above and responses below.

Keep them coming!
Cheers
Em

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:57 PM Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com> wrote:

> Hi John and other folks,
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> It’s certainly an interesting point and one that I can understand. Many
> people I work with, using open source technology, are not part of OSGEO
> /FOSS4G/OSMF and would unlikely even attend a FOSS4G conference because
> they are occasional users of the technology and use it as a means to some
> other end (ie create maps to support grant applications for environmental
> work, niche map requirements, interested in mapping their local area). They
> are also usually volunteers in some other organisation. I am a conduit
> between them and the technology. I am also retired, have time to engage and
> despite being untrained in any spatial technologies, have an interest in
> how things might develop.
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> Much of my interest/use of the technology I can also do without OSGEO, but
> I see OSGEO, the SIGS, conferences, user group meets, mapathons etc as a
> way to expand both my knowledge and to pass that on to others that I am
> supporting.
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> I do much more on other communication channels (Discord, slack (local and
> international)) and that gives me a much better idea of what is happening
> in OSM, Humanitarian work, who is having issues with OS tech etc, what
> crowdfunding is underway for projects and what mapping is happening in OSM.
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> At the moment, from the email lists, I think much of the need is for those
> folks who have the desire and expertise in setting up an organisation,
> defining the goals, setting out the ground rules for the organisation. For
> many, this is likely something they either have no expertise in, or little
> interest and hence maybe the reason for low engagement.  For me, I am just
> digesting all the emails and seeing how things develop, voting when
> required and speaking up occasionally.
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> People will come to OSGEO and the SIGS when things are well defined (so
> they can see if they fit in the organisation) and they have a need, or when
> they feel they can contribute directly to the organisation, or maybe when
> the communication channels are expanded to where they are residing.
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> The one thing I have learnt in volunteering, and Open Communities, is that
> nothing happens at any speed and engagement and retention can be very hard.
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> Cheers - Phil
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> *From:* Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf Of *John
> Bryant
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 15 December 2020 8:12 PM
> *To:* Oceania community <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Charter-members] 2020 OSGeo Board of
> Directors election results
>
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>
> Interesting point Graeme. It's not the first time I've heard someone say
> that they get the feeling the organisation is about professionals - someone
> recently told me they weren't sure if, as a student, they would be welcome.
> This was shocking to me, I identify with the idea that it should be welcome
> to anyone who's interested.
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> My thought is that the org should serve the community, and that community
> broadly includes all kinds of open geospatial enthusiasts, from armchair
> mappers to students, professionals and amateurs, and beyond.
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