[Board] Draft voting rules...

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Yes, 17 days is pretty long -- 10 should be sufficient?

Also, I think we need to state that if less than 15 people actually
receive any votes, then only that number of nominees are made charter
members.

-mpg

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:57 AM
> To: Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
> Cc: OSGeo-Board
> Subject: Re: [Board] Draft voting rules...
> 
> 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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