[Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

[Bart van den Eijnden]

So is there a proposal for the survey questions already somewhere?

Bart

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> On 26 jul. 2015, at 17:28, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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>> 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:
>> 
>>    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,
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > -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
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