[Board] Draft voting rules...

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Any comments on the rules below?  I plan to open the voting tomorrow or 
> Thursday but want to make sure I didn't miss anything.
> 
> ----
> --DRAFT--
> Current OSGeo Charter Members can now vote for additional Charter 
> Members until the end of day June 29th (midnight UTC).
> 
> Please review the specific rules for voting:
> 
> - There are currently 37 nominees for Charter Membership, listed here[1]
> - Please review the lower section of that page which outlines some of 
> their contributions
> - Consider nominees according to the guidelines of "Criteria for Charter 
> Member Nomination"[2]
> - Voting is by secret email ballot starting June 13th, ending June 29th, 
> midnight UTC  (17 days)
> - Voting is open to *current* Charter Members only, as listed here[3]
> - Each voter has 15 votes to cast and assign any way they like
> - Nominees may receive more than one vote
> - Votes are *only* to be emailed to cro at osgeo.org with subject "Votes"
> - Send *one name per line* in the email, each line being worth a single 
> vote, maximum 15 lines
> - Repeat names several times if you want them to have several votes
> - I will tabulate the results within 4 days and report back to community
> - The 15 nominees with the highest number of votes will be chosen
> - A tie will be broken using a random selection method

Tyler,

This looks ok to me, though I feel you are stretching out the voting
period quite a bit from that originally passed.

I have removed myself from the cro@ alias to preserve the secrecy of the
vote, and since the need for my assisting seems to have passed.

Best regards,
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