[Board] Nomination for new Charter Members has ended

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

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Board,
the nomination for new Charter Members has ended. We have 35 nominees,
please find all the details here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2013

As per board motion from 2013-07-11 [1] we limit the influx of new
member to 30. This (arbitrary) decision was taken because 30 is a nice
compromise between 10% and one third of the number of the existing
membership (14 and 48 new members) which are the limits as per our
bylaws.

I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into
Charter membership. I can see no reason that would justify excluding
anybody from this great list of nominees and we are still well in
scope of our bylaws. If you firmly believe that an election is crucial
to our mission and goal I will duly follow your advice and start the
elections tomorrow (2013-07-25). I am sorry that this is a very short
notice to change something so important.

I suggest that one of you starts a motion stating something along the
lines of:
 "I motion to accept all 35 nominees into Charter Membership and
override the decision taken in the last board meeting."


Ideally we will be able to get +1 votes from all board members asap.
In case of strong objection please answer with a veto (-1) immediately
in which case I will take a deep breath, sigh and continue with the
elections.


Best regards,
Arnulf

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Arnulf Christl
CRO by order of OSGeo
http://www.osgeo.org

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-07-11
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