Dear all, As a follow-up to Mikel's email <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2014-August/005687.html> on boosting the working groups I'd like to call for the first meeting of the Governance Working Group for next week.
First and foremost: As a quick check for interested people's availability before nailing the exact date and time *please mark the times that work for you. Let's make this a quick 1-day check and I'll announce the date/time at the end of my Friday* (Central American time, GMT-6). The Doodle link is http://doodle.com/cr3ezb974in3wxgr In case your time zone settings are weird please note that I opened possible times for the WG meeting as one hour slots for all days Monday-Friday between 2pm and 5pm UTC. This seems to be the least inconvenient time for all of us <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20140811&p1=224&p2=143&p3=263&p4=136&p5=195&p6=170&p7=108&p8=145>. ("Luckily" we don't have active community members in Hawaii, that I would know of..) So, what are we expecting to discuss / do at the Governance WG? We have a number of governance related matters that we should discuss and improve in the near future. However, the Board identified in its face-to-face meeting that the most burning governance related issue that we have is the quorum that our bylaws requires for the voting members meetings to be legit. The majority requirement has proved so tough for us to reach that we haven't in fact had a single legit voting members' meeting since the current bylaws were approved in end of 2011. We've already drafted the process that is required for the bylaws change to happen in pretty high level of detail and it's actually quite straight forward. The whole process does not need to take much more than a month -- including the voting members meeting. I'll spell this out in a separate note that in the coming days. I think that this is an excellent first task for the Governance WG to take on and I envision that we could well be able to tackle this in one meeting, or two at most. I discussed the matter with the voting members' chair, Russ Deffner, earlier this week who shared the thought that this would be a good first task for the WG and seconded the need to fix the quorum problem as soon as possible. So, I suggest that we would nail this quorum problem in our first meeting(s) and then move on to other issues. We can of course start listing other governance related issues that we should handle in the WG. But before solving the quorum problem our basics aren't functioning properly. So first things first, I think. This said, all interested community members, please note your availability in the above linked Doodle. With best regards, -Jaakko -- jaa...@helleranta.com * Skype: jhelleranta * Mobile: +505-8845-3391 (Nicaragua) * Voice(mail) / SMS / What's app: +1-202-730-9778 * http://about.me/jaakkoh
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