<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Jorge,</div><div><br></div><div>For the board election to start, the current board has to vote and confirm that those members are accepted. So I would say we need some more days to start the board elections.</div><div><br></div><div>We have a meeting this Monday, but we can have another meeting at a later date. I don't know about you, but in Spain the 1st of November is holidays and I personally am not going to be available the full weekend until Tuesday 5th. If the rest of the board members are available and want to do the meeting before that, I can check the names on 31st and send an email if any problem arise.<br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 12:55 AM Jorge Gustavo Rocha <<a href="mailto:jgr@osgeopt.pt">jgr@osgeopt.pt</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear OSGeo board,<br>
<br>
The nomination period for charter members ended on 2019-10-20. We had 39<br>
nominations. Since we have some last minute nominations, we waited four<br>
more days to receive all the confirmations and to let all new members<br>
create their OSGeo accounts.<br>
<br>
Even though, right now we still have 10 people (out of 39) missing<br>
confirmation and/or OSGeo profile. We just send a reminder to<br>
charter-member mailing list, with the current status. We will wait one<br>
more day. We will not accept nominations without a positive confirmation<br>
by the nominee and without a OSGeo profile.<br>
<br>
We would like to ask the Board to shift in the election calendar, so<br>
that we allow proper time for community review and voting. The new<br>
calendar would be the following:<br>
<br>
Charter member elections:<br>
* Community review and voting: 2019-10-25 to 2019-10-31<br>
* Final status: 2019-11-01<br>
<br>
Board elections:<br>
* Nomination period: 2019-11-01 to 2019-11-14 (2 weeks)<br>
* Campaign period: 2019-11-15 to 2019-11-21 (1 week)<br>
* Vote for new Board members: 2019-11-22 to 2019-11-28 (1 week)<br>
<br>
If the board agrees, we will update the wiki and then announce the<br>
updated calendar.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla<br>
(your 2019 OSGeo Elections CROs)<br>
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