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

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Daniel,
thanks for the close look and for checking the dates. I extended the
nomination period to two weeks, this makes a lot of sense. I also kept
the voting open for two weeks in the hope that there will be less
conflict with summer holidays. I had to remove the week gap between
nomination and voting though because otherwise it overlaps with me
stuck in RL somewhere in the mountains between Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan. The new dates are on the web site at [1].

Re. 5, I added a section for the names of the CROs for each year,
please add yourself [2] if you were CRO in a previous year.

Cameron,
unfortunately your proposed dates collide with my offlining activities
so that someone else would have to take over altogether. To not
further delay our elections I propose to stick with the dates that are
on the Wiki now [1] and to also follow Jeroen's suggestion and keep
the advocate role separate for now. But it is a good idea to tie
updating of the profiles to Charter Member elections. I'll keep that
in mind and will also pursue the idea of implementing a bot which does
some CM stats for us and potentially also notifies members to update
their profiles.

Board,
please confirm the prior motion if this schedule is OK with you - or
suggest further changes.

Thanks,
Arnulf

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Chief_Returning_Officer

On 13.06.2012 18:14, Daniel Morissette 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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