[Osmf-talk] Closed board meeting again

[Peter Barth]

Hi,

Roland Olbricht schrieb:
> - Restrict Voting Eligibilty:
> I'm not sure about the legal situation in the UK; the German corporate
> law would allow to restrict the voting right to active members. For the
> moment being it might make sense to use the exisiting definition of
> "active members" from the AoA, i.e. any member that is associated to an
> OSM account mapping in three consecutive months.

well, it's not too hard to become an "active member" for a bunch of sock
puppet account ... for, let's say, an outsource mapping company ;-)

What rather could be more interesting is, restricting the number of new
members per year to a fraction of the current number of members. I.e.
restricting growth to something "natural".

> - Inertia:
> Both the election of only one third of the board and the STV make it
> practically impossible to take over the foundation in one go. This does
> not necessarily mean that there is nothing to do, but please notice that
> the current ruleset is rather an asset than a problem.

Except for years where one or even two members step down voluntarily.
E.g. 2015 4 persons had been elected.

> Thus said, having a competent MWG like at the moment might be the in
> fact best solution, although this is not a matter of the AoA.

+1

In addition to your list, we could at the very least start with an extra
paragraph to the welcome mat to ask companies to refrain from paying
fees to employees, giving voting instructions, ... Kind of common sense,
but I'd argue that such a written code could help arguing.

Peda