<div dir="ltr">Further to Jeff and Venka's suggestion that nominees should need more than 5% of YES votes, I'd like to ask:<br>
"Under what conditions should a candidate be denied OSGeo Charter Membership?"<br>
<br>
I feel any person who is perceived to be working against the ideals of
OSGeo should be denied membership, such as people pushing for a hostile
take over. I'd be surprised to see such people fitting OSGeo Positive
Attributes [1].<br>
<br>
There may be some people looking for the prestige of charter membership,
who are not intending to contribute to OSGeo. These people probably
wouldn't fit OSGeo Positive Attributes [1], but even if they did, they
would not likely harm the goals of OSGeo. I don't see an issue with
accidentally including a few people from this category in our
membership.<br>
<br>
Everyone else who fits OSGeo Positive Attributes [1] will be valuable to
include in our membership and it would be detrimental to accidentally
exclude (and potentially offend) these people due to overly restrictive
selection criteria.<br>
<br>
As such, I'd be wary of changing criteria much from what we already have.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes</a>.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Jorge Sanz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsanz@osgeo.org" target="_blank">jsanz@osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2014-08-18 22:47 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="">> Hi Jeff,<br>
><br>
> Do you mean that seconding should be a requirement ? Wouldn't make it<br>
> complicated to extend the community to countries where there are not already so<br>
> many Charter members ? And with so many nominations, that might transform the<br>
> discuss mailing list into a high volume list where we get lost in the flow of<br>
> emails.<br>
><br>
> Even<br>
><br>
>> Also thinking out loud on this, with so many nominations this year I<br>
>> (and from what I was told later, many others did this as well) relied on<br>
>> seconds/support emails for several of my votes. If a nominee does not<br>
>> have any visible support (other than the original nomination) from any<br>
>> other community member, should that nomination be automatically rejected<br>
>> by the CRO? Just wondering the community's thoughts on that.<br>
>><br>
>> -jeff<br>
>><br>
>><br>
<br>
</div>Just adding a requirement to have a decent profile on the wiki could<br>
help. The candidate can put there helpful information so the<br>
nomination can be more a personal statement by the nominator, with<br>
only the highlights and not a complete resume. The work then is<br>
balanced between the nominator and the candidate. That ads a little<br>
bit of extra work for candidates but reflects better the interest of<br>
him/her to be a member, no?<br>
<br>
On the other hand, knowing before the vote the support to the<br>
candidate by other members is a valuable information, how to get it<br>
*easily* but without adding too much overhead to the community is a<br>
challenge. Maybe a mailing list is not the best tool for this,<br>
thinking on something like the *thumbs-up* of social networks, reddit<br>
or stack overflow, mmm<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
--<br>
Jorge Sanz<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz</a><br>
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