-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, there always was a lot of discussion and different opinions about how we manage OSGeo membership.
This usually happened when the elections process had already started. After the fact everything quieted down again until - same procedure as every year. Instead of volunteering to go through the holistically not automated process of manually searching 150+ mail addresses, verifying individually with people and nudging us through elections that nobody really thinks are useful I suggest to start a conversation (SIC! not a discussion) [1] on how to change the current procedure, because change it needs. Before happily conversing away I suggest we all go back to what we already have now and then proceed from there. What we have: http://www.osgeo.org/membership official documents How we do it: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process Why it sucks: * It is a bit incestuous * Hard to maintain * Always ''feels'' a bit fishy * Charter Members have nothing to do most of the time * (Appears to) exclude normal people * tbc ... please add your personal offense Have fun, Eight minus one [1] Why not a discussion? Because discussions are usually based on predefined opinions of which a single one can "win" whereas all others "lose". Instead I'd like to first see an animated collection of ideas and later on a fleshing out process to find a new way of - well, what exactly? Having folks become OSGeo members. - -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlNqHK4ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2N+wCePhRwUOecY4T8iGjIHhhUz0Xk rQkAni/v8X5qf2F50AtpY32AUzObJ5fb =9amp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss