Individual members representation?

["David RR Webber" <david@drrw.info>]

As we are approaching year end some retrospective thoughts and

looks ahead occur.

 

Would it make sense to add a Board member who represents all

the individual members?

 

Clearly there are large numbers now contributing to every OASIS

team.  But only corporate members get to vote and nominate

board members.

 

Do we need balance, and would input from individual members help?

Would this help toward working with groups such as ISO in the

future?

 

Some ground rules would be needed - and also OASIS would need

to cover expenses for the person - as obviously they do not have

a corporate sponsor.  If the person subsequently joined a corporation

would this automatically trigger a new appointment - or could it

be discretionary? 

 

We could certainly also have a meeting room and feedback area

for individual members via Kavi as another resource.

 

Personally as an individual member I would definately value reports

back from the board from an independent member there.

 

OK - so I've taken the lid off a large can of worms here, but this

was an itch so I thought I'd better scratch it! 

 

What are the pro's and con's?  Is this workable?

 

DW.