Also note that I've already planned to discuss elections at the next Board meeting next week (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-05-15)...this likely woke up the Seven-borg :)
-jeff On 2014-05-07, 8:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > Folks, there always was a lot of discussion and different opinions > about how we manage OSGeo membership. > > This usually happened when the elections process had already > started. After the fact everything quieted down again until - same > procedure as every year. > > Instead of volunteering to go through the holistically not > automated process of manually searching 150+ mail addresses, > verifying individually with people and nudging us through elections > that nobody really thinks are useful I suggest to start a > conversation (SIC! not a discussion) [1] on how to change the > current procedure, because change it needs. > > Before happily conversing away I suggest we all go back to what we > already have now and then proceed from there. > > What we have: http://www.osgeo.org/membership official documents > > How we do it: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process > > Why it sucks: * It is a bit incestuous * Hard to maintain * Always > ''feels'' a bit fishy * Charter Members have nothing to do most of > the time * (Appears to) exclude normal people * tbc ... please add > your personal offense > > Have fun, Eight minus one > > > [1] Why not a discussion? Because discussions are usually based on > predefined opinions of which a single one can "win" whereas all > others "lose". Instead I'd like to first see an animated collection > of ideas and later on a fleshing out process to find a new way of - > well, what exactly? Having folks become OSGeo members. > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
