<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We had a voting timeline, it was well publicised and I don’t think that attending FOSS4G is a reason for extending the timeline. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the board wishes to extend, I agree that a precondition for extending the vote should be allowing those who voted to revote. It’s for Vasile to say whether that is easy for him to do.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think incorporating candidate platforms, manifestos and answers to community questions into the timeline for 2016 elections as suggested would improve the elections to the board.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 Sep 2015, at 13:54, <a href="mailto:board-request@lists.osgeo.org" class="">board-request@lists.osgeo.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Michael Gerlek <<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com" class="">mpg@flaxen.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [Board] Consider extending deadline for board voting</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">25 September 2015 13:53:47 BST<br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);" class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">osgeo-board List <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I think Stephen meant for next time, not this time.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">But I’d probably be in favor of extending the current vote, too — but only if those who have already voted are allowed to change their votes.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">-mpg</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On Sep 25, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I agree with Steve's recommendation to extend the voting deadline. I suggest next Friday, 2 October, end of day. It is your call Vasile, as you know the amount of votes remaining.<br class=""><br class="">-jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 2015-09-25 6:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Forwarding you a message from Stephen Woodbridge.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Vasile<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-------- Forwarded Message --------<br class="">Subject: Fwd: Consider extending deadline for board voting<br class="">Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:52:42 -0400<br class="">From: Stephen Woodbridge <<a href="mailto:woodbri@swoodbridge.com" class="">woodbri@swoodbridge.com</a>><br class="">To: Vasile Craciunescu <<a href="mailto:vasile@geo-spatial.org" class="">vasile@geo-spatial.org</a>><br class=""><br class="">Vasile,<br class=""><br class="">I tried sending this to the board list, but I guess only board members<br class="">are subscribed to that list or maybe I have to sub to the list if it is<br class="">open. Anyway please feel free to forward this to the board.<br class=""><br class="">I already looked that the candidates and voted so maybe it is not that<br class="">big of a deal, but I think it would make sense to to consider these<br class="">ideas for the future to improve our overall voting process. I think this<br class="">year went pretty smoothly overall, so excellent job on your part.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""> -Steve<br class=""><br class="">On 9/24/2015 5:33 PM, Mail Delivery System wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Subject: Consider extending deadline for board voting<br class="">From: Stephen Woodbridge <<a href="mailto:woodbri@swoodbridge.com" class="">woodbri@swoodbridge.com</a>><br class="">Date: 9/24/2015 5:19 PM<br class=""><br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">I'm sure you have already considered this but I think it might be a good<br class="">idea to consider extending the deadline for board voting because a lot<br class="">of the candidates have been at FOSSG and/or other conferences and I<br class="">think it would be good to get the candidates to respond to these<br class="">questions. Vasile already mention that about 1/2 the members have<br class="">already voted, so maybe it is moot at this point.<br class=""><br class="">Regardless of whether this does or does not happen this year, I think<br class="">that it would be a good idea to make it part of the planning from future<br class="">elections. You might have a schedule like:<br class=""><br class="">* cut-off date for nominations<br class="">* 1 week for candidates to answers a fix set of questions<br class="">* then the elections<br class=""><br class="">You might even consider putting in place something where any candidate<br class="">that does not answer the questionnaire would get dropped from the voting<br class="">because if they can not make time to post answers, then you might want<br class="">to consider that they also might not have time for spending on board<br class="">related activities. While I understand that schedule conflicts for that<br class="">week might occur having a schedule and know the plan should allow them<br class="">to work around that. And maybe they would have more time in a future<br class="">election.<br class=""><br class="">Anyway, thanks for all you have done to keep OSGeo running!<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class=""> -Steve W<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>