[Board] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

[Daniel Morissette]

With a bit of Googling I found a decision to make this change in the 
October 2009 board meeting minutes:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-10-08

But then the action item seems to have never been executed and the Board 
Election Procedure was never updated to reflect this change:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_Procedure

However, in the 2010 election, PaulR started applying this new way of 
voting:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2010

And I repeated the same when I was CRO in 2011:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2011

Daniel



On 12-07-24 10:19 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:
>> I vaguely remember the rules being different last time, or maybe the time before, and not knowing why...
>>
>> I too prefer the old way.
>
> Folks,
>
> I'll just note that the rule change was made by the board after
> some discussion.   It could be reverted to the original again
> but there was some rationale for the change producing a more
> diverse and representative board the details of which I don't
> really recall.
>
> Perhaps a web poll would be a good idea of getting feedback
> from the membership on this point.
>
> There are of course a wide variety of voting mecanisms that
> we could employ.  Personally, I can't see much value in
> changing the voting mechanism, but I wouldn't mind as
> long as we don't put something in place that is complicated.
>
> Best regards,
>


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