[OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania Board Terms of Reference Update for Review

[Adam Steer]

Hi everyone

I meant to respond a lot earlier to John - this discussion is reflected in
current comments on that section of the draft ToR.

I don't see a reason why the draft ToR can't also be open for comment by
the community. Boardfolks, can we do that? (open the draft for comment?)

And +1 to everyone - there is a strong precedent for open board comms in
the OSGeo community. If the community get sick of board noise in this list,
it is easy enough to set up:

- public discussion of anything by anyone (this list)
- publicly available, publicly archived, board matters list (does not exist
yet, we could flick the rlevant switches on oceania-board and make it so)
- an in-camera list for the board, with very limited scope of discussion
(this is how the current oceania-board list works, we could ask for a new
'oceania-board-private' list)

yes its a bit more work for board members that way to manage what goes
where, but thats what we sign up for right? By nominating ourselves as
drivers of the community we say 'we have time for all this'

Thanks

Adam

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 05:26, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 at 12:59, Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> We have the example from our parent organisation, OSGeo, where the board
>> list is public. If someone is interested in board issues, discussions and
>> deliberations then they can subscribe and monitor discussions, contributing
>> if required. They also have the board-private list for sensitive
>> discussions.
>>
>
> That's the way it should be done, with a note in the public minutes to say
> that a private discussion was held then till then re a
> "commercial-in-confidence" matter, with public discussions resuming at xxxx.
>
> Thanks, John, for raising it, & others for your responses.
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
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