[Board] Charter members and directors elections

[Jeff McKenna]

a side effect of Arnulf's statement is that I found myself reading 
Wikipedia's definition of "middle aged" 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age)

-jeff



On 11-07-18 10:56 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> Words of Arnulf are worth their weight in GOLD.
> more people on board who are not
> necessarily all white, north American / European male middle agers as
> us. Now, if all the board is of that same group it will be harder to get
> diversified.
>
> +1 many times
> Ravi Kumar
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us>
> *To:* board at lists.osgeo.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:37 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Board] Charter members and directors elections
>
> On 07/15/2011 03:25 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>  >
>  >>
>  >> How many new charter members do we want to add this year? Stick with 10%
>  >> (11 new members) or go for more?
>  >
>  > I like sticking to the 10% number.
>
> As last year I would like to suggest to extend this number and allow for
> more new charter members. I can not see the danger of any 'evil force'
> taking over OSGeo and it means a lot to people to be part of the game
> right at the heart of things. At the same time we are expanding globally
> and we would be well advised to get more people on board who are not
> necessarily all white, north American / European male middle agers as
> us. Now, if all the board is of that same group it will be harder to get
> diversified. I suggest to elect up to 35 new members (one third). If
> there are less than those let them all in.
>
>  >>
>  >> Also, does anyone have a strong objection to pushing the new charter
>  >> member election to the fall since time is a bit tight?
>  >>
>  >
>  > Many community members are talking about elections. I think it would be
>  > good to get this started now (no objections here to the timeline in the
>  > wiki).
>  >
>  > -jeff
>
> Same opinion here, we should go for it now.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
>
>