[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

[Michael Gerlek]

I get access-denied on
http://www.osgeo.org/node/357/revisions/view/814/3245

-mpg







-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>
Organization: metaspatial
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:40 AM
To: OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>, "cro at osgeo.org" <cro at osgeo.org>
Subject: OSGeo Elections 2013

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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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