[OSGeo-Board] RE: OSGeo Nominations/Results

[Chris Holmes]

Another point is that part of the election process is the acceptance of
membership, which should have taken place before the nomination.  The
nominator checks in to make sure it's ok.  Since Gordon didn't actually
accept the membership, we could just say that we can't really offer it
to him, since the process is thrown off?

If anyone other than Gary voted for him we should maybe check with them
as well, make sure it's ok to just pull another in.

Chris

Quoting Gary Lang <gary.lang at autodesk.com>:

> I just casually voted for Gordon thinking vaguely that we nominated
> him as one of the people originally signed up to go to Chicago. I am
> not even sure Gordon knows about any of this. I actually don't know
> him at all. We should just remove him. It's a pretty innocent foobar
> on my part. Just pull someone else in.
>
> Gary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Allan Doyle [mailto:adoyle at eogeo.org]
> Sent:	Thu 3/2/2006 7:37 AM
> To:	Gary Lang
> Cc:
> Subject:	OSGeo Nominations/Results
>
> Gary,
>
> I think the fact that Gordon Luckett was not nominated but was
> elected has raised some eyebrows. The discussion on the IRC channel
> was not very positive. The conclusion seems to be that even though
> there was not an explicit requirement to vote only for people on the
> nominee list, it does not look great to have someone be elected who
> was not on the list.
>
> No one seems to know what Gordon's qualifications relative to open
> source are. Yet there are several strong candidates whose
> qualifications we do know about who were not elected.
>
> The conclusion that can be drawn is that since Gordon is not well-
> known in the community but is well-known to Autodesk, is that his
> election is tainted in some way. It would have been a small matter to
> nominate him at the right time.
>
> I think the best way forward would be for Gordon to decline his
> position, and to do so quickly. If he does not, the rest of the
> membership will always regard him with a bit of suspicion. If he
> does, he can be seen as having the greater interests of the
> organization in mind. He can always be on the slate for the next
> round of memberships.
>
> I don't feel comfortable with the current situation and I think there
> are others who feel the same way. We need to do everything we can to
> rectify this. I'm open to other ideas, perhaps the board will have
> some.
>
> I don't know Gordon personally, nor did I vote for him, so I would
> not be the appropriate person to talk to him about this.
>
> 	Allan
>
> --
> Allan Doyle
> +1.781.433.2695
> adoyle at eogeo.org
>
>
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