[Board] Added "OSGeo Charter Responsibilities"

[Even Rouault]

Hi Jeff,

Do you mean that seconding should be a requirement ? Wouldn't make it
complicated to extend the community to countries where there are not already so
many Charter members ? And with so many nominations, that might transform the
discuss mailing list into a high volume list where we get lost in the flow of
emails.

Even

> Also thinking out loud on this, with so many nominations this year I
> (and from what I was told later, many others did this as well) relied on
> seconds/support emails for several of my votes.  If a nominee does not
> have any visible support (other than the original nomination) from any
> other community member, should that nomination be automatically rejected
> by the CRO?  Just wondering the community's thoughts on that.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2014-08-18 4:07 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > This is from a private message sent to me "Poor nominations are a
> > reflection on the person who wrote it." Sure, that could be true.  I
> > guess we need more firm rules on nominations for the next election.  I
> > do hope that everyone takes time to write nominations, contacts the
> > nominee beforehand, nudges them to update their wiki page...maybe those
> > hopes need to be written down I guess.
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2014-08-18 3:49 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> >> Hi Jorge,
> >>
> >> Thanks so much for compiling those numbers.
> >>
> >> For the record, I followed the discussion when the changes were
> >> proposed, and it was done all in the open, correctly (I am not
> >> questioning who or how); I just want to take a second to explain why I
> >> agree with Venka that we need to tweak those changes a little, now that
> >> we can see the results.
> >>
> >> Regarding the rules not explained on the 2014 elections page, I think my
> >> confusion is that in the "Revised Selection Process" section of the
> >> wiki, the actual new rules are not written there, and likely could be
> >> outlined there on that same page, for the 2015 election.
> >>
> >> It is interesting to me that with the 51% number, 45 of 64 would have
> >> made it (in my head I would say there was about 15 or so poor
> >> nominations), so those numbers go along with that theory.
> >>
> >> I think we should just slightly modify the new rules for the next
> >> Charter Member election, including adding the requirement of an updated
> >> OSGeo wiki page for each nominee.
> >>
> >> -jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2014-08-18 2:41 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Some comments
> >>>
> >>> - The updated criteria for election of CM is documented on the
> >>> Membership Process wiki page[1], linked on the elections page. That
> >>> page was updated by myself and Cameron *before* the nominations period
> >>> started.
> >>>
> >>> - Regarding the 5%, or just the criteria on support, it was rised by
> >>> Angelos during the request for comments done by Cameron[2] and (I
> >>> suppose) Cameron placed a low limit for inclusiveness.
> >>>
> >>> - After the elections results, I agree that limit it's too low and it
> >>> would be really hard for a candidate to not get it. Charter Members
> >>> should have a higher level of support to be accepted.
> >>>
> >>> - As CRO, for the records, and hoping that those numbers are
> >>> meaningful and help to improve the criteria, let me share some basic
> >>> statistics regarding support, that is: yes/(yes+no+abs):
> >>>
> >>> -- Maximum: 84%
> >>> -- Minimum: 39%
> >>> -- Average: 56%
> >>> -- Number of candidates with more than 51%: 45 of 64
> >>>
> >>> Anyway it's the first time we have those numbers easy at hand. For the
> >>> next elections we can refine some details on the voting and nomination
> >>> process like making a better statement about what a good nomination
> >>> is, some tips to help charter members to make an opinion about a
> >>> candidate, decide a higher level of support requested, etc.
> >>>
>
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