So elections are to add to our membership, then elections should support
that activity. Maybe the conversation needs to be also about what OSGeo
wants out of its members because that would drive the process of how to
select them.
-Steve
On 5/7/2014 7:44 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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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
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