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

[Jachym Cepicky]

+1

Jachym

P.S. Sorry, the e-mail slipped between my fingers.

2014-07-05 1:11 GMT+02:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>:
> 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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