[Board] Board meeting 2014-07-17: Motions

[Bart van den Eijnden]

But if you ask me, if someone has been active in OSGeo community for years and years and only gets elected now as charter member, and wants to become a board member, I personally see no issue with this.

I trust our board election process will do its work to take out these very rare cases and judge people on what they have done in OSGeo communities etc., not on whether or not they had been elected charter member 1 month ago or 4 years ago.

Best regards,
Bart

On 21 Jul 2014, at 16:04, Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:

> If we honestly think this an issue, I think the solution should be different.
> 
> We should then state that in order to become board member we expect people to have been charter member for at least X years. Not base ourselves on the sequence of elections.
> 
> My 2 cents.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> On 21 Jul 2014, at 15:55, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Board,
>> I agree that the elections order should be inverted, from next year.
>> Someone who just becomes a Charter Member should not be able to be nominated/elected as a Board Member just a few days later. It would be way to fast IMHO.
>> This may lead to a situation where a newly elected director may not be ready for the job or may not be fully aware of related responsibilities and ethos.
>> If it is too fast and easy to become director, then this role may also be depreciated in future, and i don't think anybody wants that.
>> 
>> My 0,02€
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
>> 2014-07-20 19:30 GMT+02:00 Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> +0 for all, since abstain
>> 
>> 
>> Jachym
>> 
>> P.S. interesting and important topics, indeed
>> 
>> 2014-07-18 12:47 GMT+02:00 Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi Board,
>> >
>> > here are the minutes of last meeting:
>> >
>> > * MOTION: adopt minutes of 2014-06-12 meeting:
>> >   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-06-12
>> >
>> > * MOTION: launch charter member election followed by board election
>> >   ASAP, with the goal of completing both before FOSS4G, with Jorge Sanz
>> >   as CRO
>> >
>> > * MOTION: authorize Jeff to use money out of the strategic travel
>> >   budget for representing OSGeo as president in FOSS4G Portland
>> >   (estimated to 3250$USD approx, to be reimbursed after upon presenting
>> >   receipts)
>> >
>> > * MOTION: to make it formal policy of OSGeo to allow president to
>> >   use 'strategic travel' budget to represent OSGeo at FOSS4G,
>> >   within the limits of strategic travel budget for current year and in
>> >   light of other expected travel requirements
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Anne
>> > --
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