[OSGeo-Board] Board Nomination email (please review)

[Markus Neteler]

+1 for both from Markus

I thought we *first* get the press release out
and the web site updated, then establish the voting process
and go for this. Going too fast doesn't make sense.

Markus

On 3/3/06, Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de> wrote:
> Chris Holmes wrote:
> > Apologies for not getting the email out today, but I think it makes
> > sense to do it tomorrow, to give the new members a day.  (and apologies
> > again for even later, as I accidentally sent this from another account,
> > so it didn't make it to the list.  Whoever is admin can just delete
> > that)  Has anyone emailed them directly to let them know that they are
> > in?  Welcome them and ensure they join the discuss list if they've not
> > already?
> >
> > Below is my text for the email.  It'd be great if you all could review
> > it, to make sure I don't say anything crazy.  A few 'action items': I'd
> > ideally like a link to the full list of members.  If that can't be done
> > by tomorrow morning at like 11am my time, I'm going to just find the
> > members and list them all in the email.
> >
> > Other item is to set up vote at board.osgeo.org.  Could you take care of
> > that Daniel?  Hopefully the way I described it (only members of
> > foundation can vote, only rich and I can read it) is possible with
> > collabnet's software.
> >
> > The only other question is if the board qualifications should be
> > included.  I'm inclined to say no, as the email's already fairly long,
> > and indeed we can leave it to the discuss list to decide what qualities
> > are desired to some extent.  The important thing to me is to communicate
> > that it will be work.
>
> The email is great. But. We are moving fast as some already pointed out
> and we have at one point been too fast already nd comitted an error.
> This is no problem, it was solved, but we are not in a hurry to get the
> voting done. Or is there a heavy deadline somewhere? We are fully
> oerative with the current 5 heads and if anything really large has to be
> decided we can postpone it for another week, I'd say.
>
> Additionally I would want to give nominees a chance to have a good look
> around at what has been going on and what it means to be a BoD member.
> Many people are just starting to understand the scope of what the OSGeo
> is going to be. So I suggest to relax a little on the deadlines and
> allow for a good two weeks to set up the nominations. Let the dust
> settle which must have been involved in voting the full 45 and let the
> newbies find out what they can do now.
> The voting process itself then can be done in a few days if the
> deadlines are well known well ahead, there is no need for a larger gap
> between closing nominations and starting voting.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
> > The email:
> > ----------
> > It looks like we've got a great group of voting members in the
> > foundation, and now that we've wrapped up the process of electing the
> > full 45 initial members, it's time to complete the board of the
> > foundation.  Five of the agreed upon nine board members were elected in
> > Chicago, leaving open four spots to be filled once the full voting
> > membership was constituted.
> >
> > Nomination to a board position is now open to any voting member of the
> > foundation.  In order to nominate someone, first check with the nominee
> > that he or she is willing to accept the nomination.  They should be
> > warned that the workload will be around 8 hours per week, likely front
> > loaded as we work on getting started up.
> >
> > After the person has confirmed that they would like to be nominated,
> > send an email to the discuss at osgeo.org list, with a subject 'Nomation
> > for Board: xxx', where xxx is their name.  Discussion about the person's
> > concrete merits and qualifications can take place on the list.
> >
> > Non-voting, aka 'associate members', are encouraged to contribute to
> > discussions on the list, and can also nominate board members, so that
> > the nomination process is open to the full osgeo membership, not just
> > voting members.
> >
> > Nomination is open to all voting members of the foundation.  The list
> > can be found (link to url listing it, or I can write out all voting
> > members at the end of the email)
> >
> > The two previously nominated board members need to be renominated, so as
> > to give them a chance to gracefully bow out before the process if the
> > time commitment is too much.  Write-ins are not allowed, and will be
> > discarded, all must be nominated through the process.
> >
> > The nomination period will last until Wednesday, March 7th at 20:00 UTC
> > (see
> > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=7&year=2006&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
> > for the time in your country).  The nominations, along with relevant
> > discussion from the discuss list, will be compiled into an html
> > document, to be posted on March 8th.
> >
> > Votes will be due Monday, March 13th at 20:00 UTC. Each member will have
> > four votes that they can distribute, from all to one candidate to one
> > per each candidates. Votes will be sent to a vote at board.osgeo.org, where
> > Rich Steele (as secretary) and a designated board member will tally.
> > This will be a private list, readable only by the secretary and the
> > designated board member(s). Only foundation voting members will be
> > allowed to post to it.
> >
> >
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