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

[Jeff McKenna]

+1

Cameron you deserve a beer for working through this with the community.

-jeff



On 2014-07-05, 12:11 AM, Cameron Shorter 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/
> 
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
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