Talk:CharterMemberOnboarding

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 <neteler@osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan
> <raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> 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