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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:05, David William Bitner <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > Many thanks again to those who were in on the conference call on Thursday > and to those who took part in the Random Hacks of Kindness event over the > weekend. > > One of the items that we talked considerably about was getting some minimal > initial governance set up for the project > (http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/OpenAerialMap_Future_Directions#Achieving_Consensus.2C_Initial_Governance). > One item that was brought up was the importance of having both domain > expertise (RS/GIS, Emergency Management, Web Developers) and programming > expertise on the steering group. > I would like to put forward the following proposal to bootstrap a Project > Steering Committee (many of these ideas are not my own and were culled from > the conversations last week). I am looking for the traditional +1,0,-1 to > this proposal. Amendments are welcome but wholly different ideas should be > given on a separate thread. Do not give a -1 unless you are ready to create > an alternate proposal. > I would like to begin a call for nominations beginning Monday, November > 23rd. At that time a form will be placed on the wiki to fill in nomination > details. Before nominating a candidate, the nominator is encouraged to > check with the nominee for an indication of willingness to serve. Self > nominations are acceptable. The form will consist of two columns: nominee > and reasons for nomination. Additional comments in the reasons for > nomination are encouraged. Nominations will be open for one week. > If on November 30th there are 5 or fewer nominations, those nominees will > make up the initial PSC. If there are more, we will seek a party with no > interest (ie not a nominee or nominator) to act as the election judge and > voting will be open for one week (closing December 7th). > Before the end of the year the newly appointed PSC will have the > responsibility to seek out and appoint no more than four additional members > to ensure a distribution of the identified disciplines on the committee. > > Thanks again for your continued interest in this project, > David > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://openaerialmap.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_openaerialmap.org
