It’s important to us that this site is kept in a good check and balance of what IT Administrators need to what open source project developers need - to make this a helpful community that accomplishes its goals, and thrives with participation on both fronts.

We’d like to organize an advisory board that would bestow its opionion and experience about some critical community elements that really drive the purpose of the site.

The advisory board would discuss and decide points about:

• The site governance, policies and participation
• Conflict identification and resolution
• Project and member recruitment
• Philanthropy and events support
• Advertising policies and programs

It is important that the advisory board consists of members who meet one of the following criteria:

- key developer or project lead for an open source project

- key contributor or spokesperson for a commercial open source project

- IT administrator power-user who is savvy with open source projects and website experiences

- spokesperson for open source communities that parallel MonitoringForge.org

If you are interested in participating in the advisory board, please contact me (tspalding@gwos.com) and let me know why you are interested in doing so, the participation angle you best represent and other past community experiences you have.