Possible reasons for change:
Inclusiveness
Democracy
Growth
Openness
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Steven


On 26 Jun 2014, at 17:21, Michael P. Gerlek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Correct: “membership”, by design at the original founding meeting, was 
> designed not to confer ANY rights or distinguishing properties except for the 
> ability to vote for board members.
> 
> While the election process is pretty messy right now, I view that as a 
> solvable problem: I’m still at a loss to understand why we’d want to change 
> anything more than that.
> 
> -mpg
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 26, 2014, at 2:58 AM, Steven Feldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> If I have understood this procedure correctly:
>> 
>> The board is voted for by the Charter Members, new Charter Members are 
>> proposed and voted for by the existing Charter Members, there may be a limit 
>> placed on the number of new Charter Members set by the board.
>> 
>> Membership of OSGeo does not seem to confer any rights on the member.
>> 
>> Do we need to review our foundation docs to find a more inclusive procedure? 
>> ____________
>> Steven Feldman
>> 
> 

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