[OSGeo-Discuss] Charter Member Nomination period ended

[maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it]

I agree with Suchith. Thanks Arnulf.
Cheers.
Maria

Def. Quota Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>:

> Excellent list of nominations. Thanks to all candidates and Arnulf  
> for all background work. I strongly support Arnulf's suggestion and  
> hope Board agrees to this proposal.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
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> Folks,
> the nomination period for new OSGeo Charter Members ended yesterday.
>
> A big "Thank You" to all who actively contributed by nominating
> candidates and supporting their nominations! Another big Thank You to
> all candidates for representing their OSGeo community aspect at the
> board level and for electing a dedicated board of directors.
>
> As CRO I am very happy to say that the nomination period worked
> smoothly (except that almost nobody cared to email the nomination to
> the CRO address as requested... :-).
>
> We now have 22 high level candidates [0] but only 20 open slots, a
> number which I simply copied over from last year when I prepared the
> schedule for 2012.
>
> As per our "New Membership Process" [1] we can add between 10% and one
> third of the existing Charter Membership, in this year this would be
> 13 to 42 members. My proposal to the board is to accept all 22 members
> instead of running an election which would simply exclude two
> potential charter members on a more or less arbitrary basis.
>
> Therefore I defer the start of the election process for two days in
> the hope that the board agrees with my proposal and we do not need to
> have Charter Member elections at all.
>
> Best regards & have a nice weekend,
> Arnulf
>
> [0]
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=New_Member_Nominations_2012&oldid=64378
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process
>
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