[OSM-talk] wiki - OSM Foundation

[David Groom]

Just looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Foundation

on that page it states "Preliminary Members of the OpenStreetMap Foundation will have the right to vote for the three principal officers of the foundation in the first vote. This vote will be open from June 11, 2006 for a period of x days. Preliminary members will not have any other rights or obligations."

My understanding of a strict interpretation of the above, is that once the three principal officers have been elected they can do what ever they like, as the preliminary members have no further rights.  Whilst in practice I am sure it is likely that the three principal officers will have the best interests of the OSM project at heart, I do not like the theory of blindly handing everything over to the control of three people with absolutely no checks or controls. 

The problem seems to stem from the fact that the idea is to elect three people, but not to give them any specific responsibilities of what they are to do next.

I think that allied to the fact that we are to vote for the three specified positions that it should be made clear that it is the responsibility of those three to come up with a constitution / way forward etc, that the preliminary members will be able to vote upon.  If in such a vote the a majority of the preliminary members do not agree with the constitution then either the three elected persons should redraft the constitution, or should subject themselves to re-election.


David
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