[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Arnulf,

Thanks for volunteering for this.  I had also added this to the next
Board meeting agenda, to make sure we tackled this, but I am happy
that you have already started.

Some thoughts:

- I like the proposed schedule

- I am all for allowing public endorsements for any
elections/nominations.   In this crazy world, the least we can do is
allow someone to nominate and thank a person publicly for their hard work.

- maybe the goal is to approve this process during the Board meeting
on 07/11

Talk soon,

-jeff



On 2013-07-02 6:40 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> 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
>