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

[Cameron Shorter]

+1
I'm strongly in favour of allowing newly elected charter members to 
become board members, assuming there is community support to vote the 
person onto the board.

Unfortunately there are many very worthy OSGeo community members who are 
not charter members yet. I'm hoping to see that change with the new, 
more inclusive rules for charter member voting.

On 22/07/2014 1:14 am, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>
> Just noting: i was elected the year, i became charter member and 
> nobody seemed to have problem with it. Yes, it could happen, that some 
> fresh charter member could not be good choice, but look, how many 
> charter members are inactive for years. I think again: community 
> worked till now, why do you not trust it any further and why are you 
> thinking of new rules?
>
> Jachym
>
> Send from cellphone
>
> On Jul 21, 2014 4:04 PM, "Bart van den Eijnden" <bartvde at osgis.nl 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 0,02EUR
>>
>>     Nick
>>
>>
>>     2014-07-20 19:30 GMT+02:00 Jachym Cepicky
>>     <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto: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
>>         <mailto: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
>>         > --
>>         > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
>>         >
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>>
>>         --
>>         Jachym Cepicky
>>         e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com
>>         URL: http://les-ejk.cz <http://les-ejk.cz/>
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