Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-20 Thread Markus Neteler
On Oct 20, 2015 10:22 AM, "Sandro Santilli" wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 08:12:41AM +0200, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: > > I personally don't think that writing half a page of activities list coul > > take more then 20 minutes. > > > > This is helpful for several things: > > - inform the boa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-20 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 08:12:41AM +0200, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: > I personally don't think that writing half a page of activities list coul > take more then 20 minutes. > > This is helpful for several things: > - inform the board > - inform the community > - promote osgeo showing its activit

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-20 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden
Regardless how often the committees have to report (twice a year, once a month?): most important to me seems to get clear whether a committee is still in charge. For instance, the website committee seems to be in a suspended state (that's why Jeff is our osgeo-webmaster), and also the marke

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-19 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
I personally don't think that writing half a page of activities list coul take more then 20 minutes. This is helpful for several things: - inform the board - inform the community - promote osgeo showing its activities - report in annual general meeting - . I think it worth the (minimalist) ef

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-19 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
If bi-monthly would be too much of work, I would suggest quarterly reports for the OSGeo Committee Chairs with target committees as listed in [1] and not individual software PSC. Just a short report (half page) report on main activities and issues could suffice. Communicating with the membership

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-19 Thread Jody Garnett
Many of our groups vary in activity, the project officers and committee chairs are available at the boards request (always have been). By the same token the OSGeo board is available if a committee or project PSC needs help ... they just add an agenda topic to the meeting. Please do not feel as a b

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Discussion for Motion: Committee bi-monthly reports

2015-10-19 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Maxi, I agree that it is difficult for a board member to be across all osgeo lists, and everything osgeo is doing, but we should question whether the board needs to be across everything in the first place? This is a "Cathederal and Bazaar" [1] question, or hierarchy versus grass roots ques