<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Daniel,<div>Agree, 21 members seems to be the fair thing to do because of the tie.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Sorry for the misleading subject... this is not a motion, just an FYI and I believe we can go ahead without a motion since what I propose here is within the limits of previous board decisions.<br><br>Daniel<br><br><br>On 11-11-28 02:37 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Board,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The Charter Member election voting period has ended, I have compiled the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">vote results and unfortunately we have a tie for the 20th slot. The New<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Membership Process [1] page suggests that in case of a tie the CRO<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">should use a random method to break the tie, but I would like to avoid<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that if possible.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The board decided at the Sept. 18 meeting [2] that we'd go with 20% new<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">charter members this year, and I (as CRO) had calculated/announced that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">this would mean 20 new members. However since we have a tie for the 20th<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">slot and 20% of 104 = 20.8, we could round the number up to 21 and still<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be within the limits set by the board.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So unless I hear objections in the next 24 hours, I plan to announce the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">selection of 21 new charter members based on the above logic.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any comments/objections?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Daniel, your CRO for 2011<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Denver_2011#Minutes">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Denver_2011#Minutes</a><br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Daniel Morissette<br><a href="http://www.mapgears.com/">http://www.mapgears.com/</a><br>Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br>Board@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>