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

[Anne Ghisla]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 09:11:51 +1000
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

+1 Anne

Next step is update of Membership process. Even if technically a Board
vote could suffice, I'd involve all Charter Members. It can be a good
testbed for the new vote system. 

Best
Anne

> /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/
> 


Anne
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