Helmut,
Your question is good, and I only have a partial answer which extends on
Jody's response.
I feel that while people are comfortable to openly disagree on technical
concepts they feel very uncomfortable speaking ill of others on a
personal level.
Organically grown Open Source communities naturally form a hierarchy
around principles of Meritocracy and Do-ocracy. There is not need for
voting for positions, people naturally assume a role based on what they
are doing. Open Source communities are successful if they master
collaboration.
The concept of voting for positions, as we do in elections, is a concept
borrowed from command-and-control hierarchies, and I feel doesn't fit
well with our Open Source ethos. I could expand, but I think I've
written more than my quota on this email list for the moment.
Cheers, Cameron
On 15/10/17 12:54 pm, Jody Garnett wrote:
I think Cameron described the reasoning, not wanting to disrupt
relationships. Cameron is probably in an awkward position, as if often
the case when people reach out privately, where he stuck determining
if people are asking him to speak for them or they simply want someone
to listen.
OSGeo is an open and friendly community and we strive to have our
communication and decision making in a transparent manner (the same
standards we hold our project steering committees to during incubation).
Nevertheless we have a number of private channels of communication in
our organization, for example during charter member nominations there
was an opportunity to contact the CRO privately if anyone was troubled
by a nomination. During incubation we make a mentor available for
private communication, as often there are legal questions to discuss.
The projects have a private list for security vulnerabilities. The
board also has a private email list which is useful for negotiating
partner relationships.
With respect to the board elections I really appreciate Gert-Jan's
approach of asking candidates questions, it was illuminating, explored
some important issues and gave everyone a chance to respond.
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Jody Garnett
On 14 October 2017 at 15:14, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hel...@web.de
<mailto:hel...@web.de>> wrote:
Cameron Shorter:
>I've had a number of people reach out to me privately, related to the
>upcoming OSGeo Board elections.
Cameron, any idea why a number of people aren't
articulating/communicating by themselves here on
the OSGeo discuss ML related to the upcoming OSGeo Board elections?
OSGeo, as I understand it, is an open and friendly community and
every discussion input is welcome.
kind regards
Helmut
OSGeo charter member
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