[Board] Nomination for new Charter Members has ended

Wed Jul 24 10:52:55 PDT 2013

In case it is needed I can nominate Phil for his important activity in the Education  Commitee....

Maria

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On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:31 PM, "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)" <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:

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> Jeroen,
> actually self nomination is allowed plus we are explicit that
> *everybody* can nominate candidates (so "self" would be no exception).
> Charter Members are the only ones allowed to *vote* but nomination is
> open.
> 
> FYI: The single self nominated person is Phillip Davis (second in the
> list) and I know at least three others besides myself who would second
> / endorse him.  (I refrained from seconding anyone because of my role
> as CRO).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
> 
> 
> 
> On 24.07.2013 16:13, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>> Hi all, I remember one self nomination in the list. Irrespective
>> of who that was, self nomination is not part of the way we have 
>> described guidelines for charter member nominations and I think we 
>> should not have a precedent by silently accepting this. Nominees
>> are proposed by charter members and we should stick to that in my 
>> opinion. Cheers, Jeroen
>> 
>> Op 24 jul. 2013 om 10:55 heeft "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)" 
>> <arnulf at osgeo.org> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>> Board, the nomination for new Charter Members has ended. We have
>> 35 nominees, please find all the details here: 
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2013
>> 
>> As per board motion from 2013-07-11 [1] we limit the influx of new
>> member to 30. This (arbitrary) decision was taken because 30 is a 
>> nice compromise between 10% and one third of the number of the 
>> existing membership (14 and 48 new members) which are the limits
>> as per our bylaws.
>> 
>> I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into 
>> Charter membership. I can see no reason that would justify
>> excluding anybody from this great list of nominees and we are still
>> well in scope of our bylaws. If you firmly believe that an election
>> is crucial to our mission and goal I will duly follow your advice
>> and start the elections tomorrow (2013-07-25). I am sorry that this
>> is a very short notice to change something so important.
>> 
>> I suggest that one of you starts a motion stating something along 
>> the lines of: "I motion to accept all 35 nominees into Charter 
>> Membership and override the decision taken in the last board 
>> meeting."
>> 
>> 
>> Ideally we will be able to get +1 votes from all board members
>> asap. In case of strong objection please answer with a veto (-1) 
>> immediately in which case I will take a deep breath, sigh and 
>> continue with the elections.
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards, Arnulf
>> 
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