I would suggest that on the contrary, being a Charter Member does come with responsibility -- it may be minimal but is critically important. All that is required is voting for new Charter Members and voting for the Board.
Assuming, reasonable efforts have been made to be in touch with Charter Members, I think it's actually important to purge those who don't take this responsibility seriously. I would suggest it's a necessary part of preserving the integrity of the organization. Keep in mind, for many OSGeo is not just a past-time - it's a vested part of our institutions, businesses, and people. Dave On 2011-12-02, at 11:23 AM, Landon Blake wrote: > I would think it appropriate to send an e-mail to people that will be > retired as a charter member before they are removed. To be fair, they > should've been warned they were on the list to be axed before the > vote. (Maybe they already were?) > > I'm not trying to excuse anyone's lack of involvement, but I think it > is important to remember that we are all busy and we don't want to > take ourselves to seriously. > > Landon > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:33 AM, George R. C. Silva > <georger.si...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Em quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2011 04:19:55, Venkatesh Raghavan >> escreveu: >> >>> Daniel and All, >>> >>> Thanks for you hard work as CRO, Daniel. >>> Could you also let us know what was the >>> percentage of voting. >>> >>> My congratulations to all the new Charter Members >>> and many thanks for all nominees for their >>> participation. >>> >>> May be time to find out charter members who have abstained >>> for Charter Member elections over the last two elections >>> and consider a retirement policy for Charter Members. >>> >>> Best >>> >>> Venka >>> >>> On 2011/11/30 14:17, Daniel Morissette wrote: >>>> >>>> OSGeo Community, >>>> >>>> I am ready to announce the results of the 2011 Charter Member Election. >>>> >>>> • Note that we had a tie for the 20th slot, so I decided to welcome 21 >>>> new charter members for this year instead of 20 since that still fits >>>> within >>>> the limits of 20% new charter members set by the board at the 2011-09-17 >>>> board meeting (i.e. 20% of 104 = 20.8) >>>> >>>> • The new charter members for 2011 are (in alphabetical order): >>>> • Bob Basques >>>> • Brian Case >>>> • Eric Lemoine >>>> • Even Rouault >>>> • G.Hanumantha Rao >>>> • Gabriel Roldán >>>> • Jachym Cepicky >>>> • Lluís Vicens >>>> • Luca Delucchi >>>> • Maning Sambale >>>> • Margherita Di Leo >>>> • Martin Daly >>>> • Martin Landa >>>> • Massimo Di Stefano >>>> • Nicolas Bozon >>>> • Sanghee Shin >>>> • Stephen Woodbridge >>>> • Suchith Anand >>>> • Tim Sutton >>>> • Xianfeng Song >>>> • Yoicihi Kayama >>>> >>>> Those results are published in the wiki at >>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011#Final_Status:_2011-11-29 >>>> >>>> I will leave it up to our board secretary to update the official members >>>> database and we the official list on the website should also be updated >>>> soon >>>> (http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members) >>>> >>>> A warm welcome to our new charter members, and thank you to all >>>> candidates who didn't make it… it was a matter of only a few votes, so >>>> maybe >>>> next year? >>>> >>>> Daniel Morissette (OSGeo CRO, 2011) >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> Congratulations to all new charter members! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
