On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Michael P. Gerlek <m...@flaxen.com> wrote: ... > The board is elected by the charter members to make policy. When the system > was set up, it was not the intent that charter members had any role other > than to preserve the nature and mission of the foundation by electing > appropriate board members.
Things may evolve: A a founding member of OSGeo I was always very interested to keep the community strongly involved. This implies that with the years charter members may obtain a stronger role than "just" electing the board members. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction What others do: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#asf-members ... but Jody has just send around some links... Markus _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
