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

Wed Jan 2 23:08:42 UTC 2013

A warm welcome to the http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/ for
Baden Appleyard!

Best,
Mike

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Daniel Dietrich
> <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That sounds good to me. Maybe two weeks since I expect some people to
> take awhile to reply, and it'd match the two week period we just
> formalized for license conformance decision dissent. Do you want to
> ping AC members who haven't said anything on-list, as secretary? :-)
>
> +1 to Baden from me.
>
> Mike