Hi John, Kerry this model of ‘anyone can sign up’ also fits the broader OSMF and OSGeo models. In OSMF you just pay, in OSGeo you go to a website and create yourself an account.
Thanks everyone for their hard work on this document, I think it is a wonderful result from a series of well considered compromises and thoughtful, experience-based input. Regards On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 10:21, John Bryant <johnwbry...@gmail.com> wrote: > From Kerry: > >> *COMMENT: If anyone can nominate new members - can you self-nominate? In >> which case isn't this an application for membership? Is the intention that >> the nominator is already a member, because this is not specified.* >> >> *It does seem odd that anybody in the whole world can nominate another >> person for membership.* >> > > Thanks Kerry. This was intentionally introduced on 27 Sep when we > attempted to resolve some disagreement by consolidating two membership > tiers into a single tier. Since one key idea is to keep a low barrier to > entry, while still maintaining some control over the membership process, > this was changed from "*any member may nominate...*" to "*anybody can > nominate...*" so that we're avoiding an "inner circle" situation. > > I don't think it's especially odd that anybody in the whole world can > nominate (including self-nomination). If someone meets our eligibility > criteria, and wishes to become a member, then we should welcome them as > members regardless of who they know. > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > Oceania@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania > -- Dr. Adam Steer http://spatialised.net https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236 +61 427 091 712 :: @adamdsteer Suits are bad for business: http://www.spatialised.net/business-penguins/
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