[Board] Clarifying Board voting rules

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Jeff,
this is embarrassing :-)
(OSGeo expects their project to have a clear PSC voting procedure but it
has not.)

I would then change my vote to -1 (if rules permit this).
Motivation is that there is no rationale for the request: a detailed cost
estimate is in my opinion the base for any decision on allocating money for
a given purpose.
Otherwise why one should ask 10k and not 20k or 2k? How these money are
going to be spent?

Or can I ask 10k to run an event (hackathon) without providing details of
costs?

TO BE CLEAR, I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST STUDENT AWARD, I'm 100% in favor, but I
would like to have a formulated request to get money.
That's all.

We could vote again this point to the next meeting, having a clear
rationale for this request.

If you would stack with my -0 not blocking vote, I still can live with ;-)

Maxi



Il giorno Mon Feb 09 2015 at 4:33:11 PM Jeff McKenna <
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> ha scritto:

> Board, I have recorded the voting procedure on the wiki (wow it had
> never been done) at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Voting_Procedure
> Please verify and make changes directly there.  Sorry for this
> confusion. Thanks,
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-02-09 11:17 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > Hello Board,
> >
> > There was some confusion at the last OSGeo Board meeting regarding what
> > a "-0" vote does for a motion.  I tried to explain that a -0 is a slight
> > disagreement and that the motion would proceed (only a "-1" stops the
> > process).  It was explained to me that a "-0" stops the process, and
> > explained to me that the MapServer project does not pass a motion with a
> > "-0" vote.
> >
> > The voter in this case confirmed that the desired effect was to
> > "slightly not agree" (see logs[1]).
> >
> > I have verified that the example used, the MapServer Project Steering
> > Committee, in fact does *not* stop a motion with a "-0" vote, as
> > explained from the PSC Guidelines[2] here:
> >
> >    - A vote of -0 indicates mild disagreement, but has no effect. A 0
> > indicates no opinion. A +0 indicate mild support, but has no effect.
> >
> >    - Respondents may vote “-1” to veto a proposal, but must provide
> > clear reasoning and alternate approaches to resolving the problem within
> > the two days.
> >
> > Therefore, as I explained in the Board meeting, if someone does slightly
> > disagree with a "-0", the motion will not be affected.
> >
> > This will apply to the results of this email vote occurring now on the
> > mailing list.
> >
> > Sorry for this confusion everyone,
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> > [1] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2015-02-05.log
> > [2] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html#detailed-process
> >
> >
> >
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