[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Accept all 37 Charter Member Nomination for 2013 elections

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1 37

Venka

On 2013/07/24 21:45, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Arnulf,
>
> Many thanks for managing the Charter Member 2013 elections.
> I motion to accept all 37 nominees into Charter
> Membership and override the decision taken in the last board
> meeting.
>
> On 2013/07/24 17:58, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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>> All,
>> this is a minor correction, we actually have 37 potential new members!
>
> +1 for electing all 37 new Charter Members.
>
>> 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.
>
> +1 to revise the above "arbitrary" decision. Voting would have made sense
> if we have more than 48 nominations for new Charter Members.
>
>
>> I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into
>> Charter membership.
>
> ++1
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
>> 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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