[Board] Proposal to start board of directors elections

[Tyler Mitchell]

Good stuff - I'm supportive and will help out where I can.  Maybe drop me a note with date of your vacation when you get a chance.

Thanks,
Tyler

On 2011-07-26, at 8:34 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Hi Board,
> 
> Following up on the other thread about charter members and directors elections, I have updated the 2011 Election wiki page to push the charter member election to the fall as we did last year (since we don't have time before FOSS4G), and to propose a schedule to start the board of directors election at the end of this week:
> 
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011
> 
> FYI there are 5 seats up for election this year:
> * Markus Neteler, Chris Schmidt, Geoff Zeiss, Jeff McKenna and Ravi Kumar have reached the end of their 2-year term.
> * Continuing Board members who have another year to serve are Arnulf Christl, Frank Warmerdam, Tim Schaub and Daniel Morissette
> 
> I didn't find a clear rule about how to launch the elections in the bylaws and according to the thread from last year around the same dates it doesn't seem that we need an official board motion to start the election (which would require +1 from all board members unless I'm mistaken), so I'll just make an informal proposal here and if it gets +1's from a majority of the board members (and no -1) then we'll go ahead. (If anyone thinks this is not the right procedure then please speak up ASAP)
> 
> ***
> I hereby propose that we run the 2011 board of directors election during the period of July 29 to August 21, 2011 as per http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011, with Daniel Morissette as Chief Returning Officer (CRO) and Tyler Mitchell as backup during Daniel's vacation.
> ***
> 
> And I start with my +1
> 
> Daniel
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