[Board] OSGeo Elections 2013

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Jeff,
yes the charter elections are to run from 2013-07-09 to 2013-07-23,
thanks for confirming. I just sent out the news item, pinged OSGeo
Discuss and tweeted:
https://twitter.com/sevenspatial/status/354247709831598082

Please consider also pinging Facebook, LinkedIn groups and all the
other places which might be interested.


Cheers,
Arnulf

On 08.07.2013 13:30, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Arnulf,
> 
> I just want to make sure we are on track for elections.  I believe
> we have support from the Board to begin the process (I'll leave the
> Board meeting agenda item as-is for this for Thursday, but I don't
> want to affect your proposed timeline).  We are to begin Charter
> Member elections tomorrow correct?  2013-07-09 to 2013-07-23
> 
> Let me know if you need anything to begin.  We should send out a 
> news_item@ announcement today.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2013-07-02 6:40 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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