Re: [OSCOM] Pressing the reset button on membership

Paul Everitt wrote:

>
> On Jul 5, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Paul Everitt wrote:
>>
>>> A couple of months ago, I volunteered to spend some time  
>>> contributing  towards improving the membership:
>>>
>>> "Meaning, get everybody in that wants in and everybody out that  
>>> wants  out.  The goal is to get enough mass in the existing entity  
>>> to have  legal votes on any changes."
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK there are currently enough members to have legal votes,
>> but it seems to me that they are all pretty much inactive but
>> at the same time do not want to get out. Even if I am no member
>> anymore I think people like Kit, Chalu or Martin should definitely  
>> become
>> members and I hope they will be able to get something meaningful out
>> of OSCOM and try to spend the remaining money (approx. USD 19K) on
>> something useful.
>
>
> That's exactly right, the current list of members contains a few  
> people that were really motivated...3 years ago. [wink]


I have no problem with that, but I think it's very sad, that some of these
people seem to be glued to their chairs for whatever strange reason, but
enough picking ;-)

>
> The energy over the last couple of months shows that a new crowd is  
> interested in a renaissance.  I'd like to help that new crowd take  
> over from the old crowd.


excellent

> It would be nice if there were enough  people as legal members that 
> votes felt legitimate, and enough people  that a new board could be 
> filled in.


makes sense

>
> Right now there are 4 people that have pinged me to show interest in  
> being a member in the legal entity.  I haven't contacted the existing  
> people yet to gauge interest,


I would guess/hope they are reading this mailing list ;-)

> but hopefully the number will get over 10.


yes, that would be nice. Thanks for putting some energy in this and
let's hope that new blood will be able to move something,
whereas I think OSCOM should try to accomplish simple things, e.g.
organize a cool conference, e.g.

"Open Source Content Management Revisited" or something like that and
keep trying to synergize ...

Michi

>
> --Paul
>


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