Re: [OSCOM] Pressing the reset button on membership

As a quick update, I emailed the current members yesterday morning.   
Based on those mails and the note to the membership below, I  
currently have 9 people interested in participating in the new legal  
entity.

It's only been a couple of days, though.  There are some on this  
list, that expressed an interest a couple of months ago, but haven't  
yet replied.  Also, not many current members have replied.  Perhaps  
the number will double in the next couple of days.

--Paul

On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:10 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Michael Wechner
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