[Board] Motion: Proposed process for selecting OSGeo charter members

[Norman Vine]

I wonder if we really need this in the 7th "Point"

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For instance, we have a strong desire to see the "Java tribe" well represented in the Foundation and support for all platforms.
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This was true when OSGeo was first formed as the initial projects were all 'C' tribe

The Java tribe is quite well represented these days
e.g.  degree,  geomajas, GeoServer, GeoTools, GeoNetwork are incubated

I think the point is we want a healthy mix of languages and technologies represented
C, Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, Perl ...
Libraries, Frameworks, Desktop Apps, Databases, Data Catalogs, web clients …

Norman

On Jul 4, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> OSGeo Board,
> 
> Could you all please vote on the following.
> Following feedback from the OSGeo discuss and board email lists, I'm now submitting the following proposed updates to the process for selection of new OSGeo Charter members.
> 
> +1 Cameron
> 
> 1a. Charter member to nominate potential new charter member(s) (as before).
> 
> 1b. A person who meets the "Positive Attributes for Charter Members" [1], may ask a charter member who can vouch for the person to nominate them.
> 
> 2. Charter members then vote (in/out/abstain) nominated charter members. This will be different to prior years, as we previously voted in a fixed number of members for a larger selection pool. (eg vote in 20 people from a list of 30). For this year, I propose we have a "Yes/No/Abstain" vote. Ie, if we have a list of 30 candidates, we will ask all charter members to vote Yes or No or Abstain against each candidate. Each candidate with more YES votes than NO votes, as well as greater than 5% of charter members who voted will be included as new charter members.
> 
> 3. Charter members would be guided to select candidates who fit the "Positive Attributes for Charter Members" [1] 
> 
> 4. There will be no limit to the number of new charter members who can be selected. This will require an update of http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes
> 
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