[OAM-talk] OAM Governance

[Hugo Meiland]

+1 for me as well, although defining emergency management as a domain 
might be a bit too restrictive; in the end this is only a part of the 
potential users group, which may be a good early adopter, I'm just not 
sure if you want to define the end-users group this restrictive at this 
point in time....
my 2 cts...

Hugo

> 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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