[Board] Nomination for new Charter Members has ended

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

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Jeroen,
actually self nomination is allowed plus we are explicit that
*everybody* can nominate candidates (so "self" would be no exception).
Charter Members are the only ones allowed to *vote* but nomination is
open.

FYI: The single self nominated person is Phillip Davis (second in the
list) and I know at least three others besides myself who would second
/ endorse him.  (I refrained from seconding anyone because of my role
as CRO).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Arnulf



On 24.07.2013 16:13, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
> Hi all, I remember one self nomination in the list. Irrespective
> of who that was, self nomination is not part of the way we have 
> described guidelines for charter member nominations and I think we 
> should not have a precedent by silently accepting this. Nominees
> are proposed by charter members and we should stick to that in my 
> opinion. Cheers, Jeroen
> 
> Op 24 jul. 2013 om 10:55 heeft "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)" 
> <arnulf at osgeo.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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
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