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<div>Below my first motion about voting motions </div>
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<div dir="auto">When a motion is presented, a quorum of 50% has to be reached in order to consider valid the vote. Reached this threshold, the majority rule is adopted.</div>
<div dir="auto">If there is no majority consensus, the members who didn't vote are required to vote ( ar least one of them). In case of parity, the motion is discussed again until a convergence is found. </div>
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From: Steven Feldman <shfeldman@gmail.com> <br>
Date: 20/09/2016 20:25 (GMT+01:00) <br>
To: Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli@polimi.it> <br>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] [Board] MOTION : Conference Committee - Updating Membership Policies and Process
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<div>Thanks Maria
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<div class="">I support a >50% must vote and the majority of the voters to decide. Did you mean to not have a veto in CC voting? <br class="">
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<div class="">Can you redraft the motion and post the new motion as a new thread for people to comment on with a cutoff when voting starts<br class="">
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<div class="">If we are speaking about less than one vote per month, probably it is not so hard for at least the half of the people to vote. </div>
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<div class="">I propose again formally: quorum at 50% and majority for the acceptance of the motion.</div>
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<div class="">Many thanks for everything.</div>
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To: Maria Antonia Brovelli <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>>
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<div class="">There are very few votes in the CC, I am not sure of the exact number but I would guess that it is less than 10 per year.</div>
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<div class="">The votes that I recall in the last year have been to appoint you and Till as members of the committee, to appoint me as chairman and the votes for the 2 stages of the 2017 RfP process. Perhaps someone else can correct me?</div>
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<div class="">I am going to back out of this discussion until others to propose an alternative if they wish. <br class="">
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<div class="">Dear Steven, as already said I don't agree on the voting mechanism and, as you have seen, there is not a consensus. I prefer that we before "solve" this question. </div>
<div class="">And sorry for asking you again, you who have been doing so much work for this Committee ( thanks a lot!!!): nobody answered me about how many motions were voted in the last year. I want to put myself in Cameron's clothes ( literally translated
from italian; ��probably in English you don't have this expression. In any case it is like "point of view") and understand pragmatically how much commitment was and is implied with respect to voting.</div>
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From: Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>>
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To: Maria Antonia Brovelli <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" class="">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>>, Venka <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>
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Cc: <a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>, conference <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
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<div class="" style="direction:inherit">My problem is that there are now 77 mails in this thread and I am not sure whether you and Venka voted against our vetoed. If you did veto, how do the substantial majority of the committee who voted in favour find a way
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<div class="" style="direction:inherit">To me this doesn't seem a very effective way of reaching a decision on a relatively minor procedural change which apparently is not very different to the procedures in some other committees.</div>
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On 19 Sep 2016, at 21:57, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" class="">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<p class="">What I've noticed as part of many OSGeo Committees is that after a while, some of the members become less active and less responsive, and that is ok.<br class="">
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<p class="">A typical person's engagement is a little like a bell curve. They start off being respectful and quite during a learning phase, then get engaged and productive, often solving a particular "itch", then involvement tapers off as the person's interest
are reprioritised. When that person becomes less active, they typically have excellent advise based on experience, worth listening too. However, because the project is not the person's primary focus they are not monitoring or voting on day-to-day project activities.<br class="">
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<p class="">Cameron, I understand your position. Anyway I think that more people participating to a discussion and taking decision is better than few. And, again, which is the problem in voting? Once you read a motion, if it is a simple one, it is easy to answer
with 0 or +1 (it requires just a couple of seconds). If there are doubts, better to discuss it in such a way to find a larger consensus. Sorry, but I really don't see the problem.</p>
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