Talk:OSGeo charter member page instruction

Some related board mailing list discussion (to be turned into a more Wiki style page):

Copy of http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-January/009338.html

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Markus Neteler  wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan >  wrote: >> Michael, >> >> On 2012/01/07 12:02, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: >> .... >> >>> I have heard a few time about the perceived lack of diversity on the >>> board. The latest elected charter members I think reflects a change >>> there (it would be nice if someone could run some statistics on that) >>> -- beyond that, can you make some specific suggestions as to how we >>> might address your concerns? >> >> >> I think I have made several specific suggestions before; > > Some related inline comments below: > >> 1) Retire Charter Members who did not vote for 3 consecutive years > > Yes - and this has been previously discussed: > http://www.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-November/009879.html > >> 2) Assign more responsibilities to Charter Members rather then >> making them only vote for OSGeo Board and new Charter Member >> elections. > > As a former board member and longest term charter Member > I agree. More responsibilities to Charter Members means more > interest for sure. > >> 3) Have Charter Members vote on crucial issues > > As a starter it could even be polls... Drupal or limesurvey > should be fine to implement the technical part easily. > >> 4) OSGeo Board Members can update their views of >> role of Charter Members in the Wiki page that you >> requested to be created >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_charter_member_page_instruction > > I'll take liberty to add this email to the related talk page. > >> 5) Set up an Advisory Committee comprising of members >> form within and outside OSGeo. These members could >> be from Academia, Government, intergovernmental >> organizations and charitable foundations. The role >> would be to evaluate our performance since 2006 >> and suggest where and how we should be heading >> in 2015. Such an Advisory Committee could work with the present >> OSGeo Board to formulate "OSGeo - Vision 2020" that could be >> presented at FOSS4G2012. > > This is a very interesting idea. > >> 6) Bring out the "OSGeo-2011 Executive Report from the President" >> and also for subsequent years. >> >> 7) Approve and publish the OSGeo Budget for 2010 and 2011 >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2010 >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2011 >> are still drafts > > I do believe that these documents should be updated to the > approved versions. > >> 8) Spend funds to keep teh OSGeo web-site up-to-date. >> For example, most of the translation are out of date. Better to remove >> them and show links to language/regional chapter pages. > > Another non-voting +1. > > Best > Markus