Re: [OSCOM] Pressing the reset button on membership

You mean members on this list?

I saw my name being bounced around. I will throw my cents in.
What are we doing?

Paul Everitt wrote:
> 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
>> Wyona      -   Open Source Content Management   -    Apache Lenya
>> http://www.wyona.com                      http://lenya.apache.org
>> [email protected]                        [email protected]
>> +41 44 272 91 61
>>
>>     
>
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