On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:52:32PM -0000, Peter Miller wrote: > > One of the concerns might be that the low membership base of the > foundation > > would make it easy for 'bad-co' to dominate the membership and therefore > > control the voting for the board. I think we may need to address this at > the > > same time as the foundation gains control of these core assets. Btw, is > > Good point. Until now I have always hold back on applying for membership, > because I wanted to wait till it becomes clear whether it makes more > sense to become the member of a local chapter or directly a member of > the foundation. > > But this might be the time for myself to apply for membership and to start > a > membership drive to broaden the base to make the Foundation stronger > against the threat of hostile takeovers. > > I looked on foundation.openstreetmap.org and am a bit confused as to the > process. I can't find a membership application form. The articles of the > association say the board needs to approve the membership. Is it enough > to just wire the money? And do I get it back if the application is > denied? :-) > Yes, you can just send the money, there's no complicated forms to fill in ;) The current process is that everyone is automatically accepted. The words in the articles of association are standard boilerplate and I assume they are there to give the board a way of defending against carpet bagging [1] style attacks. 80n [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk >
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