Thanks Gustavo! The Community Coordinator will report to the Community Council as soon as it exists and to that end, Bri is supporting the community governance working group to get the elections underway as quickly as possible.
I absolutely agree with you that all GOSH community activities are equally valuable and vital to make GOSH what it is and to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025. The GOSH nonprofit was intentionally named to provide a piece of infrastructure for the benefit of the whole community, that is not limited to a particular group. Your point is well taken that this can be confusing and the terminology should be used carefully, that will go on the agenda to be discussed at a future governance working group call. Anyone who would like more information on governance of the nonprofit can read this summary circulated in the community governance update from July 2020. The takeaway is that the board is as small in size and scope as it is possible to be and only deals with oversight of legal, financial and operational admin matters. Decision making on what GOSH does (and how the GOSH nonprofit could support that activity) is centred in the Community Council and associated community processes/groups.
Thanks for holding recent decision making to account. We’re getting to a more transparent, accountable and community-based governance structure step by step through the hard work of a lot of people. Everyone who wants to help is encouraged to read and comment on the outputs of the community governance working group that was set up last August, review the summary of their governance proposal discussed at the 16 Dec community call and come along to discuss the election process on the next community call on 25 Feb (announcement and details coming to the forum soon).
Jenny