I'm also happy to recuse myself from the PSC.

I've found that a global team of 11 can work, but it requires sacrifices on the 
part of the team. Time zones will inevitably make any workable time for voice 
conversations quite difficult to schedule as well as very late or early in the 
day for at least a few team members, especially if the team is composed of 
people who travel internationally on a regular basis. A small core is often 
easier (but not necessary better), but it should be no smaller than 5.

To make it easier to get this project off the ground, could I suggest the 
following version 0.01 temporary, modular structure: 

1) An smallish PSC (5-8) that would be charged with making the decisions to get 
OAM back online; and 

2) an Advisory Committee (AC) that would make domain-specific recommendations 
to the PSC (e.g., disaster/humanitarian response, architectural and computation 
issues, remote sensing). The AC could be of a larger size (12+) with smaller 
panels around specific issues or projects. The first AC panel might be around 
the storage architecture and tile processing.

Would that allow us to accommodate the domain-specific expertise while keeping 
a small and efficient core team? Please hack away and improve this idea, if it 
has merit.

Like Jeff, Schuyler, and Josh, I am also willing to recuse myself from the PSC, 
or (in the propsed version 0.01 structure above) to leave the PSC and join the 
Advisory Committee to represent the interest of the humanitarian 
assistance/disaster response community for this term. 

- John


--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OAM-talk] Completing the OAM PSC election process
To: "Schuyler Erle" <[email protected]>
Cc: "talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 1:23 PM

I'm more than willing to recuse myself.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Schuyler Erle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:39 -0500, Schuyler Erle wrote:
>> Now, maybe 10 PSC members is starting to get a little unwieldy, but
>> perhaps it would be simplest to start there. Consensus decision making
>> works best with smaller numbers, but you can go up to about a dozen and
>> still have it still work, if everyone's committed to the process.
>
> Jeff Johnson has pointed out to me that there were 11 nominees.
> Apparently I can't count. :) I still like the idea of allowing nominees
> to recuse themselves in order to keep the PSC down to a reasonable
> number, and then appointing the rest. I'll volunteer, for one. If anyone
> else cares to, then we're down to the original proposed count of nine.
>
> SDE
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