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

[Jorge Sanz]

+1 Jorge

Congrats Cameron, great job collecting all the community feedback.

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Jorge Sanz
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Sent from my tablet, sorry for my brevity, top posting, etc.
El 05/07/2014 01:11, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> escribió:

>  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
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process>*
>
> *[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes>*
>
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