[ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

[James Carlson]

Alan Burlison writes:
> OGB/2007/001 requires that you get the approval of both a community 
> group (2.7) *and* the OGB (2.2) which seems like overkill.

That would be overkill, if that's what it said.

Instead, it says that the community groups provide the OGB with the
required information about the project, and then the OGB announces the
project and allocates resources -- as described in 2.3 and 2.4.  It
doesn't say that the OGB needs to "approve" the project.

I agree that it seems slightly heavier and less obvious than it should
be.  The role described in 2.3 and 2.4 is roughly equivalent to what
an RTI advocate does: making sure that the required work has actually
been done by someone else.  I think it'd be entirely reasonable to
propose that this be a role that one or two people play on behalf of
the OGB, rather than having the entire board do this for every
project.

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