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

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Tim,
I am sorry to hear that you do not want run for another term. I have
always enjoyed your constructive contributions and believe that you
are a valuable member of the board. Coming from a more developer
centric point of view and somehow also representing the Java tribe
made you an important representative of OSGeo in the board. I hope
that you will continue to keep an eye on the board and chime in when
you think it is relevant to how OSGeo develops.

Thank you for your thoughtful input.

Best regards,
Arnulf

On 13.06.2012 18:50, Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of
>> Professional MapServer Support since 2000
>> 
>> 
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