[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

Tue Jul 2 20:05:58 PDT 2013

Arnulf,
Yes, I'm comfortable with the schedule, and thanks for covering the 
OSGeo Advocates.

On 3/07/2013 7:39 AM, seven at arnulf.us wrote:
> Cameron,
> good idea, thanks. I will add the Advocate update nudge to my mail as 
> we go to the charter elections and also include it in the reminders.
>
> can I also take this as an approval from you for the schedule?
>
> Have fun,
> Arnulf
>
> --
> Arnulf Christl (aka Seven)
> http://arnulf.us
>
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> From: "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> To: "Arnulf Christl" <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net>
> Cc: "cro at osgeo.org" <cro at osgeo.org>, "OSGeo Board" <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Board] OSGeo Elections 2013
> Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 23:06
>
>
> 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:
>
> 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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