On 1 Mar 2009, at 17:11, OJ W wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: >> But at least one of the OSMF members (Mikel?) >> was opposed to it because it's so easy to get OSMF membership (and as >> a consequence a controlling majority on the board). > > Did someone calculate how much it would cost to buy the OSMF? (i.e. > how many membership fees you'd need to pay to have the controlling > vote, assuming you had a supply of people to accept the memberships > and do the voting)
It is also interesting to note that a quorum for a board meeting is two and that the chairman has a casting vote. "The Board may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit, and determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Unless otherwise determined, two shall be a quorum. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote." http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/articles-of-association/ I have advocated for some time now that the articles of association need to be tightened up. I suggest that for now we assume that we can resolve these vulnerabilities of the OSMF as a separate issue and concentrate on the licence for now. With regard to up-issuing the license then I believe it is the open knowledge foundation that would hold the keys, not the OSMF. Possibly I am wrong. I don't know a lot about the OKF and intend to find out more. Again.... Can we please please have some authoritative input from someone on the OSMF board who has been in on these discussions. It is clear from comments on the list in the past 24 hours that the directors who are currently engaged in this conversation have not be involved in these discussions at board level. I wonder who has? anyone? or has it all be 'left to the lawyers'? Steve? Where is Steve, has anyone seen him recently on this list... (sorry to be bitchy, but it does seem bizarre at present that no one is able to answer any of these questions) Regards, Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
