[Board] Motion: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

[Daniel Morissette]

+1

Thank you very much for leading this discussion Cameron.

Daniel


Le 4 juillet 2014 19:12:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> a 
écrit :

> OSGeo Board,
>
> Could you all please vote on the following.
> Following feedback from the OSGeo discuss and board email lists, I'm now 
> submitting the following proposed updates to the process for selection of 
> new OSGeo Charter members.
>
> +1 Cameron
>
> /1a. Charter member to nominate potential new charter member(s) (as before).//
> //
> //1b. A person who meets the "Positive Attributes for Charter Members" 
> [1]//, may ask a charter member who can vouch for the person to nominate them.
>
> //2. Charter members then vote (in/out///*abstain*//) nominated charter 
> members. This will be different to prior years, as we previously voted in a 
> fixed number of members for a larger selection pool. (eg vote in 20 people 
> from a list of 30). For this year, I propose we have a "Yes/No/*Abstain*" 
> vote. Ie, if we have a list of 30 candidates, we will ask all charter 
> members to vote Yes or No or Abstain against each candidate. Each candidate 
> with //*more YES votes than NO votes, as well as greater than 5% of charter 
> members who voted*//will be included as new charter members.//
> //
> //3. Charter members would be guided to select candidates who fit the 
> "Positive Attributes for Charter Members" [1] //
> //
> //4. There will be no limit to the number of new charter members who can be 
> selected. This will require an update of 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process//
> //
> //[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes/
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
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