Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

2015-07-03 Thread Ravi Kumar
+1 On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Eli Adam ea...@co.lincoln.or.us wrote: Vasile, Great work pulling this together. We keep calling this discussion things like Charter member elections and addressing it during election periods. I think that topic is really something else, the nature

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

2015-07-03 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Maxi and Eli, I like Maxi's clarification of charter member involvement. I see similarities with: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Suggested_involvement_from_board_members (I found this list, originally started by Arnulf, to be very useful when I was considering involvement

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

2015-07-03 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
Thanks Eli, I agree with you about the distinction between Participants and Members. While participants are those that are working with open source technologies in the geospatial field (I know many people that don't care of OSGeo but follow many list of open source projects or topics because this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

2015-07-03 Thread Siki Zoltan
Dear All, don't forget about the moral task of Charter members, to be an advocate of OSGeo and FOSS4G. I would keep OSGeo membership, those who are not contributing code, documentation, etc. to a project, membership is the only way to express their connection to OSGeo. It is more than just

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 2015 Charter Member elections

2015-07-03 Thread Eli Adam
Vasile, Great work pulling this together. We keep calling this discussion things like Charter member elections and addressing it during election periods. I think that topic is really something else, the nature and types of OSGeo Membership or something similar. If we evaluate our existing