[OSGeo Oceania] Community consultation: OO Org QGIS Special Interest Group Charter

[Andrew Jeffrey]

Hi All,

The OSGeo Oceania board has approved an initiative for members to form Special
Interest Groups (SIGs)
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U3R3wSHR9jo9VgywmAQqKswrylwjxw9-/edit>within
the OO community.

A SIG is a way for community members to collaborate around common interests
which in this case is QGIS.

In establishing a SIG, the OO board requires that the group proposing the
SIG put forward a charter which outlines the Aim and Scope under which the
SIG will operate.

Myself, Emma Hain, John Bryant, Nathan Woodrow and Nyall Dawson would like
to start a QGIS SIG which can be used to benefit QGIS users in our
community. To get things started we have come up with a charter that we
would like to make available for community consultation. As this charter
currently reflects our input we would like to put this out for discussion
to see if what we are proposing is on the right path for the community. At
the moment everyone with the link below has "comment" permissions, but
"edit" permissions can be granted on request if you would like to get more
involved and you're welcome to do so.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lrewntrC0N1r6mfZdo1AdPhe2qTEaN5hDA2pcL0mrvI/edit?usp=sharing

I also just want to be upfront that this SIG is proposing that there be a
membership fee associated with the group. The funds raised by the
membership will be stored with the OO org and then used by the SIG on items
as scoped out in the charter. The idea with the membership is not to "make
money" but to pool our small contributions to give us better "buying power"
for lack of a better term. As a SIG within the OO org we can participate in
crowdfunding campaigns, engage a dev to develop a feature important to us
but might not be recognised as important to the larger QGIS project, or
engage a trainer to provide professional development via Zoom, the types of
things that are hard to do as individuals or as a user group with no funds
etc. The membership arrangement also allows us to offer membership to
organisations which will become a way for them to support QGIS and their
local QGIS community. Ideally, this is where a majority of the funds would
come from as we don't want an individual to be excluded due to a "fee",
which is also covered in the charter. I'm available as I'm sure the other
proposers are to discuss the intention of this further and in the open on
this list.

Any questions feel free to ask or if you prefer to comment on the charter
that is fine too.

I look forward to discussing this with you.

Thanks
Andrew
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