OSGeo Board elections! (was: Re: [Board] Re: Cief Returning Officer for...)

[Paul Ramsey]

Yes, if we can move the charter member decision to the fall, a board election can happen in about 20 days... Quick decision, most appreciated!

P.

On 2010-07-25, at 11:23 AM, "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)" <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:

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> Board,
> we need to take a quick decision here. Please speak up!
> 
> We are too late to have regular Charter Member nominations and elections
> and Board nominations and elections after that in time for FOSS4G (see
> Paul's note below).
> 
> In my opinion it is of prime interest to have a functional and well
> informed board to run OSGeo. To this effect it would be great to have as
> many of the old and new board in one place and FOSS4G seems to work out
> as the only event where we can get this done.
> 
> I have checked our bylaws and we can also have the board elections now
> and extend the Charter Membership later. Obviously we would miss the
> chance to get somone completely new into Charter Membership and directly
> into the board but this is not as bad as having new directors who never
> meet in real life. What do you think?
> 
> In the long run it may be better to do it the other way round anyway.
> First get the board functional, then extend the Charter Membership.
> Charter Members can follow what is going on for half a year and then
> decide whether they are interested in being active on the board. Just my
> 2 Ct.
> 
> Please share your thoughts so that we might still get it done in time.
> 
> Reminder: I will be away (and really offline) from August 1. to 23.,
> this includes the next board meeting. Next regular schedule would be
> beginning of September. As that is already the conference week we will
> then already have the f2f board meeting in Barcelona. You might want to
> start building and agenda at the next meeting!
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
> 
> 
> Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>> thanks for the quick update.
>> 
>> Board,
>> so we failed on the date. Now what?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Arnulf
>> 
>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>> Well, not entirely true, if you told me right now I might just be able
>>> to tally up the Board election results on the plane to Barcelona. Last
>>> year it took about 40 days to run the Charter process and then the
>>> Board process (and that was partly because the Charter process didn't
>>> go to a vote).
>> 
>>> P
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>>>> The last board meeting doesn't seem to have approved a number of
>>>> Charter Members to add this year. Or are we not adding any? If you
>>>> want to do a Charter Member process, it's unlikely you can complete
>>>> the Board election before FOSS4G.
>>>> 
>>>> P.
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
>>>> <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>>>>> OK doke, will do. Do you have any dates in mind already?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> P
>>> Great, thanks Paul!
>> 
>>> The only date that I am aware of is that we want to have the new
>>> directors ready to go at FOSS4G so that we can have a big face to face
>>> for all directors to get up to speed.
>> 
>>> Arnulf.
>> 
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
>>>>>>> <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>> we would be very happy if you could again volunteer to be our Chief
>>>>>>> Returning Officer for OSGeo Board elections. Could you please let us
>>>>>>> know whether you are available to coordinate the upcoming elections?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>> Arnulf.
>>>>>>> 
>> 
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