[OAM-talk] OAM Governance

[Brian Russo]

+1

On 11/17/09, David William Bitner <david.bitner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Many thanks again to those who were in on the conference call on Thursday
> and to those who took part in the Random Hacks of Kindness event over the
> weekend.
>
> One of the items that we talked considerably about was getting some minimal
> initial governance set up for the project (
> http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/OpenAerialMap_Future_Directions#Achieving_Consensus.2C_Initial_Governance).
>  One item that was brought up was the importance of having both domain
> expertise (RS/GIS, Emergency Management, Web Developers) and programming
> expertise on the steering group.
>
> I would like to put forward the following proposal to bootstrap a Project
> Steering Committee (many of these ideas are not my own and were culled from
> the conversations last week). I am looking for the traditional +1,0,-1 to
> this proposal. Amendments are welcome but wholly different ideas should be
> given on a separate thread. Do not give a -1 unless you are ready to create
> an alternate proposal.
>
> I would like to begin a call for nominations beginning Monday, November
> 23rd. At that time a form will be placed on the wiki to fill in nomination
> details.  Before nominating a candidate, the nominator is encouraged to
> check with the nominee for an indication of willingness to serve. Self
> nominations are acceptable. The form will consist of two columns: nominee
> and reasons for nomination.  Additional comments in the reasons for
> nomination are encouraged. Nominations will be open for one week.
>
> If on November 30th there are 5 or fewer nominations, those nominees will
> make up the initial PSC.  If there are more, we will seek a party with no
> interest (ie not a nominee or nominator) to act as the election judge and
> voting will be open for one week (closing December 7th).
>
> Before the end of the year the newly appointed PSC will have the
> responsibility to seek out and appoint no more than four additional members
> to ensure a distribution of the identified disciplines on the committee.
>
>
> Thanks again for your continued interest in this project,
> David
>

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