Live GIS Management

The OSGeo-Live Project Steering Committee (PSC) is the official managing body of OSGeo-Live and is responsible for setting overall project direction. The committee is drawn from the OSGeo-Live community and is based on merit and interest.

Decisions

Decisions are based on voting using the following:

• +1 : For
• +0: Mildly for, but mostly indifferent
• 0: Indifferent
• -0: Mildly against, but mostly indifferent
• -1 : Strongly against. This is expected to be accompanied by a reason.

For most decisions, a motion is raised within one of the OSGeo-Live open forums (IRC, email list, etc) and those present vote and decide. Should a decision:

• Be strategic or impact many within OSGeo-Live,
• Or if there be contention in deciding, and after discussion at least one member is still strongly against the motion, by continuing to vote -1,

Then the motion should be referred to the PSC.

For motions presented to the PSC, a motion is considered passed when there are more PSC +1 votes than -1 votes, and either all PSC members have voted, or 4 days have passed. In the case of a tie, the PSC chair shall have 1.5 votes.

PSC Members

• Angelos_Tzotsos (Chair)
• Brian M Hamlin
• Cameron Shorter
• Alex Mandel
• Johan Van de Wauw
• Sebastiaan Couwenberg
• Massimo De Stefano
• Astrid Emde

Our thanks to previous PSC members:

• Hamish Bowman

Selection of new PSC members is determined by PSC vote. PSC members may retire any time. If a PSC member becomes inactive for many months they may be invited to retire, and if unresponsive they may be removed by the existing PSC.

Expectations of PSC members

• Regularly contribute to OSGeo-Live or related activities
• Help with whatever dirty work is required to keep the project moving forward
• Monitor OSGeo-Live conversations, either in weekly IRC meetings, or on the email list, and contribute constructively where appropriate
• Vote promptly (within days) to motions being raised

Credit: This management process draws heavily from other OSGeo project PMC processes.