[Board] Nomination for new Charter Members has ended

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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...had to look a bit for the right link but here it is:
http://www.osgeo.org/membership

Under Specifics you can find that from Participant to Charter Member
anybody has "Nominating Rights: has the right to nominate Charter
Members and Board Members".

I just checked the current list and interestingly only two nominations
come from regular members. All others have been nominated by existing
Charter Members. While this is a good thing because it shows that our
Charter Members are active we might want to emphasize before the next
elections that *anybody* can nominate *anybody* else.

Cheers,
Arnulf


On 24.07.2013 17:31, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
> 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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