[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNqHK4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2N+wCePhRwUOecY4T8iGjIHhhUz0Xk rQkAni/v8X5qf2F50AtpY32AUzObJ5fb =9amp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections
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 Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections
So elections are to add to our membership, then elections should support that activity. Maybe the conversation needs to be also about what OSGeo wants out of its members because that would drive the process of how to select them. -Steve On 5/7/2014 7:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNqHK4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2N+wCePhRwUOecY4T8iGjIHhhUz0Xk rQkAni/v8X5qf2F50AtpY32AUzObJ5fb =9amp -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Save the dates for FOSS4G NA 2015
Hello Everyone, (cross posted to OSGeo-discuss LocationTech-iwg) We have a brief announcement regarding FOSS4G NA 2015 http://42aross.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/save-the-dates-for-foss4g-north-america-2015/. It will be held on March 9-12, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, California. For what it's worth, our venue RFP was targeted at a number of cities including Washington D.C., San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Austin, and more. Based on the criteria including size, cost, quality, accessibility and related criteria, Burlingame came out the winner. It's a beautiful venue! Organizing is going full steam ahead... more soon. Kind regards, Andrew ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
