[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

Tue Jul 2 14:06:03 PDT 2013

Last year at this time we started the "OSGeo Advocate" concept, and it 
is my hope that we revisit the Advocate section as part of the Charter 
member re-election.
The advantage of aligning the Advocate section with the Charter 
re-election is that people will be thinking about both, and will likely 
update/create their Advocate profile as they think about Charter members.

This is how we have proposed to refresh the Advocate List:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Annual_Refresh_of_Advocate_list
/The list of OSGeo Advocates will be refreshed annually, after the 
annual voting of OSGeo Charter Members. This will be achieved by 
removing lapsed Advocates, then moving all Current Advocates into the 
Past Advocate section. All Advocates will be invited to update their 
profile, and move their profile back into the current Advocates section./

What I propose is that Arnulf's email be extended to include:

*OSGeo Advocates*
In line with voting new Charter members, we call on volunteers to create 
or update their OSGeo-Advocate profile. Profiles from all current 
advocates has been moved into the Past OSGeo Advocates section, and we 
encourage all advocates to move back into the Current Advocates section, 
and update if required.

OSGeo Advocates are authoritative OSGeo personalities who have 
volunteered to talk on behalf of the OSGeo foundation. Advocates should 
be able to speak well, even better if they are entertaining.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of conferences around the world 
which have an interest in seeing presentations from authoritative 
speakers, with deep insights into topics related to Open Source 
Geospatial Software. Luckily, OSGeo is fortunate to draw extensive 
membership from around the world, and has access to such authoritative 
figures within most countries.

On 2/07/2013 7:40 PM, Arnulf Christl 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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