[Board] motions for the meeting 2014-09-13

[Even Rouault]

Selon Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>:

> We probably did not.
>
> Before publishing the results, we can ask discuss mailing list,
> whether someone has serious concerns.
>
> Target is: open osgeo as much as possible since openness is one of
> your strength (you can add your comment to this of course)
>
> Why not open the results, if in  *every* elections, results for the
> candidate are always open (in democratic countries)

FWIW, I'm supportive. If the election was done in the traditionnal way (paper
vote), publishing results per candidate would be necessary to establish the
results. Not shoking at all to extend that principle to e-voting.

>
> Have open data for elections evaluation, to make the process even
> better in the future.
>
> J
>
>
>
> 2014-09-16 10:14 GMT+02:00 Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl>:
> > Right, the only issue I see is that we did not tell this to people before
> they ran in the election. I.e. by running in the election you agree that the
> (aggregated) voting results may be published.
> >
> > Or did we and I missed it?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> > On 16 Sep 2014, at 10:02, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas <jsanz at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> El 16/09/14 a las #4, Bart van den Eijnden escribió:
> >>>>> * to publish last board and charter member elections on the internet
> >>>>> withe detail numbers of +1's and -1's for each nominee
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like to hear Jorge's thoughts on this first actually before voting
> >>>
> >>> Changed to +1 after reading that Jorge sees no issues here.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Bart
> >>
> >> Bart, just to extend myself a little bit on this, I don't see any
> >> concern on publishing aggregated Yes/No/Abstain's on board or charter
> >> members elections. Publishing what level of support our candidates have
> >> had it's good IMO, even for those that haven't had as much as they could
> >> expect.
> >>
> >> ALL candidates, specially those for the board, have our most sincere
> >> support and recognition, they are our best, and our most important asset
> >> as a community and I hope they don't get annoyed or pissed off by being
> >> on the lower level of support; someone has to have it.
> >>
> >> At the end we have to see it as an exercise of assertiveness and
> >> transparency.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> >> http://es.osgeo.org
> >> http://jorgesanz.net
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