[Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jachym,

I fully agree with you.  Putting it off until later is just not how we 
as a community operate.  And true, if the voting takes longer we can 
just adjust the timeline.  I feel this is a great use of our charter 
members.

-jeff



On 2015-07-26 5:09 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Jeff, I'm fine with the new proposal - we should get movin'
>
> Someone might not to catch up (one week can fit into someones holiday) -
> and we try to re-define charter-member policy according to to members
> voting activity. But that is easily solvable by later "waving".
>
> OSGeo should be relatively small but active group. In some cases, we can
> do this (see various Letters to OGC and others). I do not see any reason
> for not being this possible for elections (what is a long-planed event).
>
> J
>
> so 25. 7. 2015 v 18:51 odesílatel Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl
> <mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl>> napsal:
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>     I'm not behind a computer so not easy to do this on mobile
>     unfortunately.
>
>     I'd probably just move everything up 1 week (since the first week
>     from your timeline would be out in my proposal).
>
>     Bart
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>      > On 25 jul. 2015, at 18:43, Jeff McKenna
>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>     <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > Hi Bart,
>      >
>      > Welcome back.
>      >
>      > In your -1, would you mind to propose a new timeline in your
>     proposal? Just copy/paste my dates and edit, and let the Board know
>     how you would do this.
>      >
>      > thanks,
>      >
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>      > -jeff
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>      >> On 2015-07-25 12:51 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>      >> IMHO we should not rush polling the charter members on the
>     voting rules.
>      >>
>      >> I'd suggest simply adopting the previous procedure for this
>     election and poll the members separately
>      >> after this election. Even setting up the questionnaire properly
>     will likely take a lot of discussion.
>      >>
>      >> My 2 cents.
>      >>
>      >> Bart
>      >>
>      >> Sent from my iPhone
>      >>
>      >>> On 25 jul. 2015, at 13:36, Jeff McKenna
>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>     <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
>      >>>
>      >>> Hi Vasile, all,
>      >>>
>      >>> To be honest, we really need to get moving on the elections (I
>     tried kicking this election off back in May, insert polite yell here).
>      >>>
>      >>> So how to get moving.
>      >>>
>      >>> Here was the original timeline that I proposed:
>      >>>
>      >>>  2015-06-22 to 2015-07-12: Nominate new Charter Members (3 weeks)
>      >>>  2015-07-13 to 2015-07-19: Vote for new Charter Members (1 week)
>      >>>  2015-07-20 to 2015-08-02: Nominate new Board Members (2 weeks)
>      >>>  2015-08-03 to 2015-08-16: Vote for new Board Members -  (2 weeks)
>      >>>
>      >>> Here is a new proposal:
>      >>>
>      >>>  2015-07-27 to 2015-08-03: Poll Charter Members about voting
>     process (1 week)
>      >>>  2015-08-04 to 2015-08-17: Nominate new Charter Members (2 weeks)
>      >>>  2015-08-18 to 2015-08-24: Vote for new Charter Members (1 week)
>      >>>  2015-08-25 to 2015-09-07: Nominate new Board Members (2 weeks)
>      >>>  2015-09-08 to 2015-09-14: Vote for new Board Members -  (1 week)
>      >>>
>      >>> It's a tight timeline (right up to FOSS4G-Seoul), but, we've
>     done tight timelines for previous elections.
>      >>>
>      >>> If anyone has problems with this timeline, please do propose a
>     better timeline.
>      >>>
>      >>> Thanks,
>      >>>
>      >>> -jeff