[Board] Voting charter members and Election of the Board ofDirectors

[Gary Lang]

Tyler should definitely handle the logistics of this. 

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From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jo Walsh
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:32 PM
To: Arnulf Christl
Cc: OSGeo-Board
Subject: Re: [Board] Voting charter members and Election of the Board
ofDirectors

dear Arnulf, all, finally finding time to reply. 
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:45:45PM +0100, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> Oh, I can see that nomination starts March 2nd, so we should better
prepare:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Proposed_Board_Election_Procedure

I see in this several threads knotted together.
1/ Bylaws (human-readable) describing the process 2/ Expansion of
Charter membership 3/ Ruleset for Board re-elections 4/ Someone taking
responsibility for running the process.
> How clear are we about this process now? 

> Who is going to vote?
> Are we going to extend charter membership? (so far we needed charter 
> members only to )

Yes, as i understand it, only the charter members, this is the only
reason they exist and only 'power' they have above regular members. 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Membership_Process - this time last year

Right now we can
a/ expand the charter membership first, then hold board elections b/
stay with existing core, plan properly to expand charters *next* year

Value of b/ - less confusion, less effort Value of a/ - more inclusion,
broader representation No strong opinion. Who decides? Appropriate for
the Board to decide?

What about the ruleset? We discussed at the last telecon ISTR that a
'rump' should stay on for continuity and thus not stand for re-election.
Collectively amongst the 9 of us + Tyler we should decide what N is and
thus what 9-N is. N is probably 3 or 4. 

There was a good process last year which seemed to work - everyone
having V votes where V == 9-N where N is potential new board members.
Chris, as you ran this round personally perhaps you have commentary. 
 
I think it would be wonderful if Tyler could take on the specifics of
running the election, e.g. collecting the email, harassing people who
haven't voted, sending reminders, tallying votes etc. Unless anyone else
thinks they have yet more time to volunteer.

I'd like to start a thread in which each of the 9 of us describes our
opinions about wanting to stay in, re-stand, or possibly stand down.

Our current pseudobylaws don't reflect this reality, so this is probably
a priority, to have this described in draft somewhere pre-authoritative
on the wiki.

HTH; looks like our collective responsibility to resolve this quickly.

best,


jo

Note; current pseudobylaws don't match this at all.
https://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
Section 3.5. Election and Term. Each person named in the Certificate of
Incorporation or elected by the incorporator(s) at the organization
meeting, as the case may be, as a member of the initial Board of
Directors shall hold office until the first annual meeting of members
and until his or her successor shall have been elected and qualified or
until his or her earlier resignation, removal or death.

At the first annual meeting of members and at each annual meeting
thereafter, the members shall elect directors to hold office until the
next succeeding annual meeting. Each director shall hold office for the
term for which he or she is elected and until his or her successor shall
have been elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation,
removal or death.
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