[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

[Michael Gerlek]

Thanks.

-mpg







-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>
Organization: metaspatial
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 10:09 AM
To: Michael Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com>
Cc: OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: OSGeo Elections 2013

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>Interesting. If you are logged in you can see it. No idea why
>not-logged in users cannot see this. Some Drupal thingy.
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>Attached find a screenshot (yeah, not exactly elegant but does the job...)
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>Cheers,
>Arnulf
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>On 07/02/2013 06:27 PM, Michael Gerlek wrote:
>> I get access-denied on
>> http://www.osgeo.org/node/357/revisions/view/814/3245
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>> -mpg
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>> -----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.
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>> 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".
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>> All changes here:
>> http://www.osgeo.org/node/357/revisions/view/814/3245
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>> *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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>Arnulf Christl
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