Difference between revisions of "OSGeo Bylaws"

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Original document moved to official site:
 
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  [https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/ https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/]
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[https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/blob/master/board/documents/bylaws.odt working document]
  
 
The bylaws no longer cover everything the foundation is doing (process for board re-elections, local chapters, sponsorship relations, status of charter and regular members) and ideally they should.
 
The bylaws no longer cover everything the foundation is doing (process for board re-elections, local chapters, sponsorship relations, status of charter and regular members) and ideally they should.
  
 
Our bylaws are also default corporate boilerplate and [[User:JoWalsh]] Jo thinks it would be great to have a human-readable version that actually reflects what we are doing, we can be later translated into attorney-speak, rather than something legally perfect but not actually mapping to what we are doing.  
 
Our bylaws are also default corporate boilerplate and [[User:JoWalsh]] Jo thinks it would be great to have a human-readable version that actually reflects what we are doing, we can be later translated into attorney-speak, rather than something legally perfect but not actually mapping to what we are doing.  
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== Names of people interested in helping to update the bylaws ==
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* [[User:JoCook | Jo Cook]]
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* Frank Warmerdam
  
 
== References: ==
 
== References: ==

Latest revision as of 11:19, 17 May 2019

Original document moved to official site:

https://www.osgeo.org/about/bylaws/
working document

The bylaws no longer cover everything the foundation is doing (process for board re-elections, local chapters, sponsorship relations, status of charter and regular members) and ideally they should.

Our bylaws are also default corporate boilerplate and User:JoWalsh Jo thinks it would be great to have a human-readable version that actually reflects what we are doing, we can be later translated into attorney-speak, rather than something legally perfect but not actually mapping to what we are doing.

Names of people interested in helping to update the bylaws

References:

  • http://www.okfn.org/governance/ - the Open Knowledge Foundation is also renewing its governance process and has a much lighter weight approach but still taking into account the necessities of legal responsibility of officers/directors etc