[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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On 07/02/2013 02:27 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi Arnulf,
> 
> Thank you for leading the election this year. The proposed
> schedule looks good to me.
> 
> I see that you left the number of charter members to elect open by
> just referring to the limits of 10% and 33% of existing membership
> (i.e. between 14 and 48 new members for 2013). Should we settle on
> the number of charter members before the election, or are you
> simply proposing that we accept up to 48 new members if we get that
> many valid nominations?

Hi Daniel,
that was my thinking. First I arbitrarily raised the number to 30 but
could not think of any good reason and just left it open. We have a
clear upper limit of 48 members but I wonder whether we will get that
many nominations. If we limit to 20 and then have 22 good nominations
like last year we will again have to discuss...

> I don't feel strongly one way or the other, but I'd rather make
> things clear up front instead of having yet another yearly debate
> on this question during or after the election.

No strong opinion here either (and no say) so its the board who must
come up with a decision. I am fine with whatever the board decides. My
suggestion is to leave it at a max of 48 new members and see what
happens. I doubt we have that many nominations.

Cheers,
Arnulf

> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 13-07-02 5:40 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
> 
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