[Board] MOTION: Approve schedule for the 2012 OSGeo elections

[Daniel Morissette]

I believe your proposal is fine, it follows all the rules that I am 
aware of.

However here are a few notes/comments from last year's CRO after my 
review of your proposal for the benefit of those who are less familiar 
with the process and the way it used to be held:

1- We are coming back to holding the charter member election first, 
followed by the board election. This is perfectly fine as this is the 
way things used to be in the first years of the foundation, and we had 
reversed the order in the last 2-3 years due to poor timing (i.e. we 
started the election process too late)

2- I note that the proposed charter member nomination period is 7 days 
which is slightly shorter than the 13-14 days nomination period that we 
had in 2011 and 2010, but then the proposed voting period of ~14 days is 
longer than what it used to be. This is fine and respects our rules 
which require 1 week for both. However, I used to like a longer 
nomination period to keep time for nominees to be contacted and provide 
feedback. My suggestion would be to adjust your proposal to have ~12 
days nominations and ~8 days voting for the charter member election. The 
gap of 1 week between nominations and voting is great to leave time to 
nominees to send out a little speech.

3- I am fine with the proposed number of 20 new charter members (and 
hope that nobody will reopen that endless debate on the number of 
charter members to add each year).

4- Nothing to add/change on the board election part of the proposal

5- Should we start the practice of putting the name of the CRO in the 
Elections wiki page... just to keep track of who played the role when 
without having to dig out in the mailing list archives?

Thank you for taking the lead on this

Daniel



On 12-06-13 11:11 AM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
> Dear Board,
> we are ready to start the Elections 2012. I have created the Wiki pages
> and added a schedule. As in previous years the board should approve of
> the election schedule and procedure. I suggest to stick with 20 new
> members but am open for suggestions.
>
> Please don't jut rubber stamp this but check whether I got it all right
> or suggest changes if something is really wrong.
>
> If everything looks OK, please proceed to second and vote so that we can
> get going before the next board meeting.
>
>
> MOTION: Approve schedule for the 2012 OSGeo elections as specified on [1].
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012
>


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