Dear All
I strongly believe that within this membership's nominations
should be
representatives from all established non-official mapserver
communities,
such the Brazilian one, which is quiet but pretty active.
"Local" interests,
capabilities and limitations would be better represented in
this way.
Rafael M. Sperb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Mitchell" <tylermitchell shaw.ca>
To: <discusslists.mapserverfoundation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MSF-Discuss] Membership Nominations?
> On February 8, 2006 06:50, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> Paul Spencer wrote:
>> > Would it be reasonable to have a different
class of membership, such
>> > as
>> > associate member, that would be open in the
way Ari suggests? This
>> > would seem more inclusive to me. I agree in
principle with the
>> > rationale for limiting membership so this
would have to be some sort
>> > of
>> > alternate membership. In a sense, it is like
the difference between
>> > the folks on the dev list at mapserver versus
the folks on the users
>> > list ... those on the users list are members
of the community but
>> > don't
>> > contribute to the daily technical stuff. Just
a thought in passing
>> > ...
>>
>> I think this idea was alluded to before as
"Friends of the foundation"...
>
> Yes, that is what I was referring to by 'Friend of the
Foundation' or
> 'Associate Member'. The idea being that they have no
formal
> responsibility
> to the running of the foundation but can have some
voice. A couple ways
> I
> see they could have a voice:
> -There could be a PSC just for 'friends', with the head
of the PSC being a
> member. They provide input and help guide direction
informal through this
> PSC. This gives them a real voice, by having the head
directly report to
> the
> board on things. This also gives the head an
opportunity to 'scout' out
> new
> potential members, by letting them work under the PSC
umbrella to 'prove'
> themselves.
> -They could help organise user group meetings. The
'friends' become an
> informal extension of the foundation membership, acting
as on-the-ground,
> regional associates. They could help pull together
more friends and more
> potential members, etc. by hosting/leading events, and
just generally
> being
> available as a 'local' contact.
> -It'd be nice if they could receive or have the option
to buy a
> t-shirt/sticker/whatever, that identifies them as an
"Friend of the OSGeo
> Foundation" to foster pride in the foundation.
> -They could have their own working group and birds of a
feather session at
> the
> conferences.
>
> I can probably think of some more benefits.
>
> The only responsibility would be some implied
participation in the above
> activities and a nominal membership fee (~US$20 ?).
>
> Tyler
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