[Board] MOTION: Approve schedule for the 2012 OSGeo elections

[Tim Schaub]

Doc looks good to me.  I agree with Daniel's suggestions and added a
section on nominee self-promotion.

I also edited the doc to indicate that I will not be standing for
re-election in August.  I'm hoping that someone with more volunteer
time and energy can take my place.

Tim

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> I believe your proposal is fine, it follows all the rules that I am aware
> of.
>
> However here are a few notes/comments from last year's CRO after my review
> of your proposal for the benefit of those who are less familiar with the
> process and the way it used to be held:
>
> 1- We are coming back to holding the charter member election first, followed
> by the board election. This is perfectly fine as this is the way things used
> to be in the first years of the foundation, and we had reversed the order in
> the last 2-3 years due to poor timing (i.e. we started the election process
> too late)
>
> 2- I note that the proposed charter member nomination period is 7 days which
> is slightly shorter than the 13-14 days nomination period that we had in
> 2011 and 2010, but then the proposed voting period of ~14 days is longer
> than what it used to be. This is fine and respects our rules which require 1
> week for both. However, I used to like a longer nomination period to keep
> time for nominees to be contacted and provide feedback. My suggestion would
> be to adjust your proposal to have ~12 days nominations and ~8 days voting
> for the charter member election. The gap of 1 week between nominations and
> voting is great to leave time to nominees to send out a little speech.
>
> 3- I am fine with the proposed number of 20 new charter members (and hope
> that nobody will reopen that endless debate on the number of charter members
> to add each year).
>
> 4- Nothing to add/change on the board election part of the proposal
>
> 5- Should we start the practice of putting the name of the CRO in the
> Elections wiki page... just to keep track of who played the role when
> without having to dig out in the mailing list archives?
>
> Thank you for taking the lead on this
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
> On 12-06-13 11:11 AM, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
>>
>> Dear Board,
>> we are ready to start the Elections 2012. I have created the Wiki pages
>> and added a schedule. As in previous years the board should approve of
>> the election schedule and procedure. I suggest to stick with 20 new
>> members but am open for suggestions.
>>
>> Please don't jut rubber stamp this but check whether I got it all right
>> or suggest changes if something is really wrong.
>>
>> If everything looks OK, please proceed to second and vote so that we can
>> get going before the next board meeting.
>>
>>
>> MOTION: Approve schedule for the 2012 OSGeo elections as specified on [1].
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Arnulf
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012
>>
>
>
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> Daniel Morissette
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>
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