[OSGeo Oceania] membership - elections - AGM

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 15:06:59 PDT 2019


I'm +1 for a membership removal process. (We have/had one for OSGeo, along
the lines of "if you don't vote in elections, then you will be asked if you
want to stay. If you don't want to stay, or you don't response, or you
continue to not vote, then you will be removed").

On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 22:18, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using 'positive attributes' makes sense to me.
>
> *>It only becomes an issue if we set a criteria that x % of members need
> to vote.*
> Typically a public entity's constitution will require quorum for certain
> actions, ours [1] states that we need 20% of membership present to run a
> General Meeting. For this reason, I'm in favour of some kind of (simple)
> mechanism for keeping the list somewhat current.
>
> Alternatively, we could seek to modify our constitution (and this may be
> desirable to make sure it's in accord with our community standards).
>
>
> [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kakpBuOsF6ObF4IiUVSA2PRI3-7Asy7P/view
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