[Board] Motion to accept all 37 nominees into Charter Membership (was: Re: Nomination for new Charter Members has ended)

Fri Jul 26 02:32:12 PDT 2013

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Board,
sorry to bother you again but can you please answer to this motion (see
full text below)? Unfortunately we are already behind schedule for the
New Member (s)elections (my schedule was apparently too tight).

Management Summary:
So far all (Charter Members and regular OSGeo members) have supported to
accept all 37 nominees into Charter Membership, there have been no
vetoes so far.

Cameron tends towards sticking with the decision taken by the board
(partly motivated by upholding the uniqueness of Charter Membership and
to prevent it from becoming and arbitrary thing). It does not appear to
be a veto though.

Jeroen questioned the self nomination of one nominee as per our bylaws
[0]. Our Membership Rules [1] (officially motioned and accepted by the
board) allow this. I added that this inconsistency be addressed after
the current elections to the Wiki [2]. Maria additionally offered to
retrospectively nominate Phillip David [3] (but I don't know whether
this is "allowed" by our rules either).

Can you please send a +1 if you are fine to go forward with this or make
a veto so that we can proceed with the regular elections?

Thanks, Arnulf
(CRO on behalf of OSGeo)

PS:
I volunteer to be part of a group to clean up the elections processes
[2] and corresponding parts of our bylaws [0] after FOSS4G in October 2013.

[0] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
[1] http://www.osgeo.org/membership
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category_talk:Elections
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2013

On 25.07.2013 11:26, Anne Ghisla wrote:
> Hello all and sorry for top posting,
> 
> 
> I motion to accept all 37 nominees into Charter Membership and
> override the decision taken in the last board meeting.
> 
> 
> My previous vote for 30 new members was not forecasting so many great
> nominations - I thought that we would have 20ish nominations like last
> year. I am impressed by the great contributions made by all 37
> nominees, and wish to accept them all as Charter members.
> 
> I know it could be the second year we skip the election process, but I
> take it as a friendly suggestion that the process needs to be
> re-evaluated.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Anne
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:49:57 +0200
> "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)" <arnulf at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
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>> Cameron,
>> I have added Maria as nominator to Phils nomination (although I still
>> believe that a self nomination is perfectly in order).
> 
>> The page is sort of an official document so I have write protected it
>> after the end of the nomination period to avoid having it spammed. Any
>> SysOp (the list is linked from the page) can edit the page or remove
>> the write protection. I have now *removed* the write protection
>> because nominees  might still want to modify the content of this
>> page. I'll add write protection after the process is completely
>> closed.
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Arnulf
> 
>> On 24.07.2013 22:59, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Arnulf,
>>> To avoid more people having concerns about self nomination, would
>>> you mind updating the wiki to note Maria as the nominator. (I don't
>>> seem to have write access to do this myself).
>>>
>>> On 25/07/2013 4:42 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
>>>> I am happy to second this nomination. Phil is contributing
>>>> actively to the Education Committee efforts.
>>>>
>>>> Suchith
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> [board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Maria Brovelli
>>>> [maria.brovelli at polimi.it] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:52 PM
>>>> To: arnulf at osgeo.org; Jeroen Ticheler
>>>> Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Board] Nomination for new Charter Members has ended
>>>>
>>>> In case it is needed I can nominate Phil for his important
>>>> activity in the Education  Commitee....
>>>>
>>>> Maria
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>>>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:31 PM, "Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)"
>>>> <arnulf at osgeo.org> 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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