Jody,
Not following what you mean by these two.
Item 1: Items that can be used by board to limit scope? How would we detail that exactly.
I think at a certain point you end up spending more time itemizing things, which takes time away from actually doing things.
Like I think all the SysAdmin stuff we itemized needs to be done eventually, sure we can keep pushing things down the road, but things will eventually blow up.
Sure we can not pay hosting fees to OSUOSL and sure they won’t kick us out, but I think that just makes us jerks.
Item 2: What are in-kind contributions from the SAC committee? Is that like time volunteered that could be used as sponsorship instead of money?
e.g. if my company Paragon were to pay for my SAC time, would that constitute the equivalent of sponsorship and Paragon would be listed as a sponsor on osgeo.org site like other sponsors?
I actually like that idea and I think something we should do for others who do volunteer a lot of the their time to OSGeo and such time is under-appreciated, because we never put a price tag on those things.
I presume for the other “opportunities for participation”, you are thinking providing more detail as Json had mentioned of where he would serve best and how can we utilize his services?
That piece I honestly haven’t given much thought to. I’d rather leave that to other people to decide for themselves, as many have e.g. you volunteered to administer discourse, website administration, and repo.osgeo.org and that has been helpful.
Jsanz does a lot of the mailing list stuff.
From my point of view, I’m more concerned with having 3 people who are familiar enough with our infra that they can backup each other. Building that level of trust takes time so I wouldn’t leave that up to casual volunteering.
That is ultimately not a nice to have, but a must have if we are to stay afloat.
Thanks,
Regina