<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>37 or 30 is what is going to decide .. election or NO election. It is a close call.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Would be happy to see all 37 on board. Those at the helm may pl give it a thought.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Ravi</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> board@lists.osgeo.org <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:15 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Board] Accept all 35 Charter Member Nomination for 2013 electiona.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Arnulf,<br><br>Many thanks for managing the Charter Member 2013 elections.<br>I motion to accept all 37 nominees into Charter<br>Membership and override the decision taken in the last board<br>meeting.<br><br>On 2013/07/24 17:58, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:<br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>><br>> All,<br>> this is a minor correction, we actually have 37 potential new
members!<br><br>+1 for electing all 37 new Charter Members.<br><br>> As per board motion from 2013-07-11 [1] we limit the influx of new<br>> member to 30. This (arbitrary) decision was taken because 30 is a<br>> nice compromise between 10% and one third of the number of the<br>> existing membership (14 and 48 new members) which are the limits as<br>> per our bylaws.<br><br>+1 to revise the above "arbitrary" decision. Voting would have made sense<br>if we have more than 48 nominations for new Charter Members.<br><br><br>> I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into<br>> Charter membership.<br><br>++1<br><br>Best<br><br>Venka<br><br>> I can see no reason that would justify<br>> excluding anybody from this great list of nominees and we are still<br>> well in scope of our bylaws. If you firmly believe that an election<br>> is crucial to our mission and goal I will duly follow your advice<br>> and
start the elections tomorrow (2013-07-25). I am sorry that this<br>> is a very short notice to change something so important.<br>><br>> I suggest that one of you starts a motion stating something along<br>> the lines of: "I motion to accept all 35 nominees into Charter<br>> Membership and override the decision taken in the last board<br>> meeting."<br>><br>><br>> Ideally we will be able to get +1 votes from all board members<br>> asap. In case of strong objection please answer with a veto (-1)<br>> immediately in which case I will take a deep breath, sigh and<br>> continue with the elections.<br>><br>><br>> Best regards, Arnulf<br>><br>> _______________________________________________ Board mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board"
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