Interest groups, Chapters and Branches
Tyler Mitchell
tylermitchell at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 20 23:50:34 EDT 2006
I've refactored a bit of the content at:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Local_Chapter_Guidelines
Mainly I was trying to find a way to more accurately describe the
different 'levels'.
You can read more about it there, but in a nutshell:
1) Interest Group (mailing list, web site support)
2) Chapter (OSGeo project, all project-related resources available,
reporting to board as per other projects)
3) Branch (Separate board, with someone reporting back to main OSGeo
board/membership, own budget, etc.)
Note that I also didn't put in "Local/Regional" or "Language" in any
of the level names, since they could be either. For example you
could theoretically have:
* German Language Interest Group
* German Regional Interest Group
* Indonesian Chapter
* Japanese Branch
* Ottawa Regional Interest Group
... you get the idea.
So I hacked up the wiki a fair bit so that Arnulf wasn't the only
editor :) Let me know if this only confuses things more. It just
didn't seem right to call the Ottawa user group, the Ottawa
"Chapter", would make more sense to call it a regional interest group.
What do you think?
Tyler
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