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

[Jo Cook]

Hi All,

This is OK with me

Jo

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:

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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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