[Local-chapters] Starting Over

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Ulf Möller <um at ulfm.de> wrote:

> One of the things we need to think more about is how to deal with potential
> problems between the Foundation and local chapters. On the one hand the
> Foundation has to protect the integrity of its name and of the project. On
> the other hand the agreement must be balanced and not give one party
> excessive powers - clearly we'd have a problem if local organizations felt
> that they were better off not becoming a local chapter.

I agree with you, but I'd like to take this question from a different approach.

I'd like to know what the goals of the OSMF are for its local chapter program,
and it might be good for the board to find out what the goals are of
the local chapters.

Once we understand what it is we're trying to accomplish, we can work together
to come up with a plan that helps achieve that goal.

> We can't get people from America, Australia and Europe on one conference
> call, so in my opinion meeting minutes and e-mail are extremely important.
> As far as I know the plan is to schedule the next meeting for the morning US
> time/evening European time. Would that work for you?

Thea Clay has agreed to be on the next Local Chapter call and
represent the US's interest. If the call time is workable for me, I'll
sit in on the call too to listen in, but either way, someone from our
group is willing to make the sacrifice in order to be part of the
process.

 - Serge