[od-discuss] new member to the advisory council?

Tue Dec 18 10:17:21 UTC 2012

Dear all,

just remembered that we did never followed up this properly. I am not 100% sure if we have an established process on how to add new members to the advisory council? If not lets establish one ;)

Baden Appleyard has shown interest to become an active member of the council. He has extensive experience in the field that could add to the wisdom of this group. 

So would it be acceptable for the group to go ahead like this?

- all current members of the council and this list are asked if they agree to add Baden
- if no one disagrees within one week he will be warmly welcomed

If anyone has a better proposal how to deal with this please say so.

All the best
Daniel

On 3 Oct 2012, at 23:31, Baden Appleyard wrote:

> Thanks Rufus, 
> 
> I'd be delighted to join if that were agreeable to all.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> b
> 
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> On 2 October 2012 23:38, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 2 October 2012 05:20, Baden Appleyard <b.appleyard at ausgoal.gov.au> wrote:
> > Hi Rufus, Daniel, et al..
> >
> > I happened to mention to Daniel in passing at the OKFEST, if there was
> > something that I could do / support / investigate / review personally (but
> > perhaps with an Australian Governments / law perspective) then I would be
> > happy to do that.  It seemed that the Advisory Council was a suitable group.
> 
> It would be great to have you as a member of the OD Advisory Council
> if you were happy to join Baden!
> 
> > Good thinking re someone from the AC on AusGOAL.  At the moment, membership
> > of AusGOAL is restricted to Australian Governments or strategic partners
> > identified by the AusGOAL Board (all of whom contribute financially to the
> > AusGOAL programme eg. The Australian National Data Service, which is also
> > government funded).  AusGOAL isn't, at the moment, a community organisation.
> > OKFN-Au might be better positioned in that role.. Or at least I am hoping it
> > will shortly.
> 
> Understood and that sounds more than fine -- let's leave things as
> they are on this front!
> 
> Rufus
> 
> [...]
> 

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