[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

[Peter Batty]

Arnulf (and all),

It seemed odd to me that there were 3 of the 9 directors up for
re-election, I thought it should have been either 4 or 5 (since we have a
two year term).

Checking back, what happened was that Jo stood down after a year and Jáchym
was elected with a one year term to complete Jo's term - see
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1308

So Jáchym is up for re-election too.

Cheers,
    Peter.


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Arnulf Christl <
arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> wrote:

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> Board,
> please double check the timetable for the upcoming elections at:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2013
>
> I basically copied the page from last year and adjusted the dates so
> that they align with my availability. If the dates need to be changed
> I might not be able to be CRO because I am off grid for two weeks in
> August. Hopefully there is general consent that we can go ahead as
> proposed.
>
>
> Please note that I have checked some (probably not all) pages related
> to elections and have come across some inconsistencies. On our web
> site at: http://www.osgeo.org/membership it said that "Participants"
> have no "Nominating Rights" which is incorrect. Anybody can nominate
> new Charter Members, this explicitly includes "outsiders" who are not
> registered on the OSGeo Wiki or web site. Plus I appended "data" and
> "education" as positives in "contributions to open source software".
>
> All changes here:
> http://www.osgeo.org/node/357/revisions/view/814/3245
>
> *After* the nominations and elections I suggest that we flesh out all
> pages related to elections, remove ambiguous and contradictory terms
> and then run them through a board motion. We should obviously have
> done this right after the last elections. My bad - but hey, we are all
> volunteers. :-) So this year we will again run with "proposed" and
> "new" processes (which are not all that new anymore).
>
> We can again expect some discussions around our processes which we
> should carefully collect and consider as input to update out pages. We
> are not changing processes for the upcoming elections though.
>
> On: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process it says that
> "Nominations for charter membership should be sent to the CRO (at
> cro at osgeo.org)." and then that "The CRO should verify with the nominee
> that they are willing to stand for the election." The nominator should
> obviously do this up front. The CRO will additionally ask the nominees
> for a confirmation for the records.
>
> Should we also encourage endorsements/recommendations for new
> directors on the discuss list? Last year some suggested that for new
> charter members this is fine but that during board elections this
> should not be done. I forgot the reasoning. Not sure what you think is
> better? I suggest that the board elections should be quiet.
>
> Please also let me know how many directors are going to be added this
> year. My current count is three due to lapse and re-election of board
> members last year. Not sure if any of the current members wishes to
> not continue. But we can work that out in the coming weeks, first off
> is the charter nomination which I would really like to get off the
> ground asap.
>
> Anything else I forgot please let me know so that we can get started.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
>
> - --
> Arnulf Christl
> http://metaspatial.net
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