[Osmf-talk] Update of Articles of Association

Vincent Picavet vincent.ml at oslandia.com
Wed Jul 20 17:01:46 UTC 2011


Hello,

I personally am in favor of what was stated below.

Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 17:55:08, Jonathan Harley a écrit :
> On 19/07/11 14:29, Simon Poole wrote:
> > - I don't see any reason not to allow legal entities to join as normal
> > members (with exactly one vote). With the current member count it is
> > possible that "normal" members could be out numbered, it's rather
> > unlikely and will hopefully only be a temporary danger.
> > 
> > - I'm strongly opposed to having board seats reserved for any specific
> > group, with the potential exception of local chapters (see below),
> > it's just asking for problems.
> > 
> > - I would support explicitly allowing the board to invite non-board
> > members to their meetings, but I don't really see the utility of
> > having non-voting and/or co-opted members (been that myself more than
> > once, makes for nice business cards, but otherwise?)
> > 
> > - I would consider it a good idea to -not- skimp on the local chapter
> > issue. In the current and planned model the OSM-F is competing both
> > for money (even if it is a small amount) and attention with local
> > chapters. Some thought should go in to trying to see if we can't find
> > a solution in where there is at least some representation of the
> > mappers that are just organized in local chapters.
> 
> +1 on all these points.

That's a +1 for me too on all of the comments made by Simon.
Vincent





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