Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members
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 about me: stevenfeldman t: @StevenFeldman skype: stevenfeldman2638 On 25 Jun 2014, at 20:00, discuss-requ...@lists.osgeo.org wrote: From: Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members Date: 25 June 2014 12:31:03 BST To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Following the community discussion, I further researched OSGeo's foundation documents, (in retrospect I should have done this earlier). Of particular relevance to current discussion is our ByLaws: http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html Section 7.1. Admission of [Charter] Members. An initial group of up to forty-five (45) persons shall be admitted as the initial [charter] members of the corporation upon the affirmative vote of the Board of Directors of the corporation. Thereafter, to be eligible for [charter] membership, a person must be nominated by an existing [charter] member of the corporation pursuant to a written document in such form as shall be adopted by the Board of Directors from time to time. The nomination must be included in a notice to the [charter] members at least ten (10) days in advance of the meeting at which the [charter] members will vote on the applicant’s admission. Proposed [charter] members shall be admitted upon the affirmative vote of the members of the corporation. This section implies that the proposal below of automatically accepting Recognised OSGeo Community Leaders is unconstitutional, as charter members need to be voted into the role by existing charter members. It also implies that while a separate paid membership category could be created, paid members would still need to be voted into a charter member role by existing charter members. The ByLaws don't mention limiting the number of new charter members. This criteria seems to have been introduced as a Membership Process by the 26th Board meeting: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process The number of new members will be between 10% and one third of the existing charter membership count as decided by the board. Such a statement created by the board, could be updated by the board, and as such the board could agree to accept an unlimited number of new charter members. So I'm now thinking that our election process can be simplified to: 1. Charter member to nominate potential new charter member(s) 2. Charter members then vote (in/out) against all nominated charter members A suitable criteria for determining whether a nominee qualifies is listed here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes 4. Nominees with a majority of votes are included as new Charter Members ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Porting UK Location Program Customisations to Geonetwork 2.10/2.11
Dear Lists, You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor. My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released towards the end of 2014. Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions: 1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have any other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good opportunity to get them included in our plans. 2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this project? Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd prefer. Regards, Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform http://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. -- https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members
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 shfeld...@gmail.com 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 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Porting UK Location Program Customisations to Geonetwork 2.10/2.11
Hi Jo, Do you know whether you can achieve what you need by only creating a new schema plugin, or is the work more complicated (i.e. involves modifying the code base) http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/2.10.3/eng/developer/schemaPlugins/index.html On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com wrote: Dear Lists, You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor. My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released towards the end of 2014. Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions: 1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have any other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good opportunity to get them included in our plans. 2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this project? Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd prefer. Regards, Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform http://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Porting UK Location Program Customisations to Geonetwork 2.10/2.11
Hi Ian, Certainly creating a new schema plugin will be one part of what we want to achieve, but there were some code changes made, and we need to assess whether they have been integrated already into the later releases of geonetwork. Jo On 26 Jun 2014 18:52, Ian Edwards iedwards@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jo, Do you know whether you can achieve what you need by only creating a new schema plugin, or is the work more complicated (i.e. involves modifying the code base) http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/2.10.3/eng/developer/schemaPlugins/index.html On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Jo Cook joc...@astuntechnology.com wrote: Dear Lists, You may be aware that the UK Location Program GEMINI2/INSPIRE metadata standard is currently only available for GeoNetwork 2.6, which is now quite old, and that there are no official plans to support later versions on Geonetwork, as Defra will be moving over to an online-only metadata editor. My employer, Astun Technology, is considering commissioning a piece of work to port the GEMINI2 schema to run in GeoNetwork 2.10 onwards. We aim to make this work available on Github, to allow UK users to take advantage of the numerous enhancements in the most recent versions of Geonetwork, and will also prepare us to upgrade again when the new GEMINI3 is released towards the end of 2014. Before we start on this, we have a couple of questions: 1. Beyond achieving GEMINI compatibility with GeoNetwork do you have any other suggestions or requirements? Speak up now as this is a good opportunity to get them included in our plans. 2. Would your organisation be interested in contributing to this project? Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd prefer. Regards, Jo -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform http://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/ -- https://astuntechnology.com/ishare/2014-enterprise-gis-roadshows/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
