[Board] Motion to accept 21 new charter members instead of 20

[Mark Lucas]

Daniel,
Agree, 21 members seems to be the fair thing to do because of the tie.

Mark

On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Sorry for the misleading subject... this is not a motion, just an FYI and I believe we can go ahead without a motion since what I propose here is within the limits of previous board decisions.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 11-11-28 02:37 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>> Board,
>> 
>> The Charter Member election voting period has ended, I have compiled the
>> vote results and unfortunately we have a tie for the 20th slot. The New
>> Membership Process [1] page suggests that in case of a tie the CRO
>> should use a random method to break the tie, but I would like to avoid
>> that if possible.
>> 
>> The board decided at the Sept. 18 meeting [2] that we'd go with 20% new
>> charter members this year, and I (as CRO) had calculated/announced that
>> this would mean 20 new members. However since we have a tie for the 20th
>> slot and 20% of 104 = 20.8, we could round the number up to 21 and still
>> be within the limits set by the board.
>> 
>> So unless I hear objections in the next 24 hours, I plan to announce the
>> selection of 21 new charter members based on the above logic.
>> 
>> Any comments/objections?
>> 
>> Daniel, your CRO for 2011
>> 
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Denver_2011#Minutes
> 
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