[Board] Motion: Accept all 22 Nominees of 2012 as new OSGeo Charter Members

[nicolas bozon]

+1 for 22 candidates.
Anne, i'm very +1 with your saying.

Best,

Nick

2012/7/8 Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com>

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:54:25 -0600
> Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com> wrote:
>
> > Michael, my understanding of Arnulf's proposal is not that we
> > override the election process per se.
> >
> > However, the board has the right to decide how many charter members
> > are elected each year - as he said in a previous email, this should
> > be at least 10% and no more than one third of the existing Charter
> > Membership, which this year that would mean between 13 and 42 new
> > members.
> >
> > So Arnulf is proposing that the board should decide that 22 new
> > charter members should be elected this year, which is something that
> > we can do within the existing rules. If we do that then the number of
> > nominees matches the number of slots available, so then there is no
> > need to go through the voting process, since we know that all
> > candidates will be elected.
> >
> > This seems reasonable to me (though I'm not aware that we have done
> > this before, to answer your question).
>
> I am also in favour of accepting all 22 candidates.
>
> If we want to collect support for this proposal from all Charter
> members, I suggest to go on with the usual vote, but with the additional
> option "Accept all candidates". That way, we could start to make
> Charter members participate more in decision processes, like it has been
> discussed a while ago.
> Does it sound feasible and legal enough?
>
> > Cheers,
> >     Peter.
>
> Best,
> Anne
>
> > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I'm not quite following this -  just to be clear - is Arnulf
> > > proposing we accept all 22 names as new charter members and skip
> > > the normal election process which would be for 20 new members?
> > >
> > > As a practical matter that seems reasonable, but I always worry
> > > about changing the rules as we go along and setting bad precedents.
> > > Have we done this before?
> > >
> > > .mpg
> > >
> > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Mark Lucas <mlucas17 at mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > +1
> > >
> > > Arnulf, good call, approve all 22
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 3:20 AM, "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)"
> > > <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Board,
> > > I motion to accept all nominees listed on the nomination page on
> > > 2012-07-06 [1] as new OSGeo Charter Members.
> > >
> > >
> > > Please someone second this motion so that we can proceed to vote.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Arnulf
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=New_Member_Nominations_2012&oldid=64378
>
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