Draft GOSH Constitution is waiting for YOUR input prior to referendum on 25 July 2024

Thanks @Harold! I’ll try to respond to your question, plus your other question in the Community Call thread:

  1. Mention in the Constitution that GOSH is about open science hardware - Great point! I agree having a small chunk of text about this would be good. I’m suggesting some text in the “vision statement” part of the draft Constitution to that effect. Feedback welcome!

  2. Do you think or have you considered, that if infrastructure is provided to support administration… then the administration work load will grow to fill the capacity to do it?” - Short answer: YES. Longer answer: We didn’t explicitly include admin capacity as a design consideration for the Constitution, but in my view the current draft text is (a) more descriptive of what we are already doing rather than adding too many new things to do; and (b) provides some fallback procedures for “break glass in case of emergency” situations rather than day-to-day admin. For (b), I’m particularly eager to hear feedback on whether we covered the most likely “break glass” situations, and if things designated as "should"s vs "must"s are appropriate!

  3. “do you think the heft and number of these structures/procedures is appropriate for our organisation?” - I think my answer above addresses this, too?

Let me know what you think.