Hello John, Cameron and fellow OSGeo Oceania community members, I’m in two minds as to how to address this email:
- Firstly, I’m happy to see some momentum around OSGeo-Oceania. - Secondly, I’m very disappointed to see that we have what appears to be a fait accompli [1] presented to us. I have not seen any suitable discussion on how we want to establish a local community, the rules that we want to work to, how we are going to select and reselect our community leaders etc, etc. The last that I recall was when I dug out an older email where I listed a number of concerns related to creating a legal entity about five months ago [2]. I have not seen these addressed, or had the opportunity to participate in the follow up discussion. Perhaps I have missed all of this discussion? I have looked through the Oceania email archives, but cannot see the relevant discussion. So I wasn’t imagining not seeing it. Can someone please outline how we have arrived at this point without suitable community engagement and discussion? Kind regards, Bruce [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fait-accompli [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oceania/2019-March/001993.html > On 2 Aug 2019, at 19:31, John Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with this approach. > > My feeling is that board discussions should default to using this mailing > list except where they're sensitive, ie. about specific people and/or > incidents, or relate to other confidential matters eg. financial arrangements > with partners. It's valuable to the community to see how we operate, not only > for accountability, but also because it allows people to watch over time, and > potentially become contributors. > > Meeting notes/minutes are already published here: > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oceania > > Re:opening board meetings to the public, I'm generally in favour. There will > be times when confidential discussions need to happen, but these are the > exception rather than the rule. If the board is OK with this, maybe we can do > this for next meeting and see how we go? > > Cheers > John > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania
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