OSGeo Board,
For the Board Face to Face meeting, I suggest asking the OSGeo community
for ideas to put on the OSGeo board agenda.
One topic I think worth adding to [1] is:
"Re-engaging with the OSGeo Community"
My gut feeling is that over the years email activity and new ideas has
gradually reduced on OSGeo-Discuss email list, and gradually increased
on the OSGeo-Board email list. (I'd love to find some evidenced based
research to confirm or deny this).
If this is true, it would imply that OSGeo is moving from a grass roots,
community empowered organisation, where the board's main role is
validating community ideas, toward a hierachical organisation where the
board is driving the OSGeo agenda.
Personally, I think a grass roots organisation structure is more
effective, and more in line with OSGeo's founding principles.
I suggest a starting point could be to discuss ideas on OSGeo-Discuss by
default, then move to the board list to vote.
Another idea worth building upon is inviting the OSGeo Charter members
to vote on key topics occasionally in order to help the board gauge
community sentiment.
Warm regards, Cameron Shorter
On 16/12/2015 9:48 pm, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
Dear all,
Like Maxi, I don't see the need for an external facilitator. Anyway,
the meeting agenda is extremely important. Let's start working on
that. The wiki page for the meeting [1] already include the general
topics. Please add your specific topics and let's try to allocate a
time frame for each topic.
Best,
Vasile
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016
On 12/16/15 9:42 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
Dear all,
personally i don't think we need any facilitator to have a F2F meeting
between few people.
Before taking any action in this direction I request to be discussed and
eventually voted.
best
Maxi
2015-12-16 8:05 GMT+01:00 Jody Garnett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
I have not seen the agenda for f2f meeting yet.
Personally I would prefer it focus on longer term strategy then our
usual month to month IRC meetings.
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Jody Garnett
On 15 December 2015 at 22:51, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting
OSGeo.nl <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Jody and others, ____
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Actually I have had (informal) contact with 2 process
facilitators, who might be willing to take this (paid) role.____
Some instant remarks on this:____
- do you need a facilitator just for the weekend or also for the
preparations (to be honest, the f2f agenda so far seems to focus
on practical issues, not on the agenda itself)____
- is the goal of the f2f to define a OSGeo strategy for the next
few years, or about "how to run an not-for-profit organisation".
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- or is it even -given Jeff's resigning- more about how to run a
Board with different persons, cultures, ideas (which might
require a more mediator-like facilitator)____
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Or just someone who takes the notes, makes sure the coffee is at
the right temperature etc.____
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Kind regards, ____
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Gert-Jan____
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*Van:*Board [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *Namens *Jody Garnett
*Verzonden:* woensdag 16 december 2015 02:13
*Aan:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Onderwerp:* [Board] board f2f planning / prep____
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One interesting idea on the discuss list (from Gert-Jan) was
inviting an external party to act as an "independant process
facilitator". Given we have very few days and a lot to cover I
would like to pursue this idea.____
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This is one of those things that is difficult to arrange from
afar - do we have any contacts (say with the local OSGeo
community) who would be in position to offer a
recomendation?____
--____
Jody Garnett____
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