[Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Bart,

Welcome back.

In your -1, would you mind to propose a new timeline in your proposal? 
Just copy/paste my dates and edit, and let the Board know how you would 
do this.

thanks,


-jeff












On 2015-07-25 12:51 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> IMHO we should not rush polling the charter members on the voting rules.
>
> I'd suggest simply adopting the previous procedure for this election and poll the members separately
> after this election. Even setting up the questionnaire properly will likely take a lot of discussion.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> Bart
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 25 jul. 2015, at 13:36, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Vasile, all,
>>
>> To be honest, we really need to get moving on the elections (I tried kicking this election off back in May, insert polite yell here).
>>
>> So how to get moving.
>>
>> Here was the original timeline that I proposed:
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>>   2015-06-22 to 2015-07-12: Nominate new Charter Members (3 weeks)
>>   2015-07-13 to 2015-07-19: Vote for new Charter Members (1 week)
>>   2015-07-20 to 2015-08-02: Nominate new Board Members (2 weeks)
>>   2015-08-03 to 2015-08-16: Vote for new Board Members -  (2 weeks)
>>
>> Here is a new proposal:
>>
>>   2015-07-27 to 2015-08-03: Poll Charter Members about voting process (1 week)
>>   2015-08-04 to 2015-08-17: Nominate new Charter Members (2 weeks)
>>   2015-08-18 to 2015-08-24: Vote for new Charter Members (1 week)
>>   2015-08-25 to 2015-09-07: Nominate new Board Members (2 weeks)
>>   2015-09-08 to 2015-09-14: Vote for new Board Members -  (1 week)
>>
>> It's a tight timeline (right up to FOSS4G-Seoul), but, we've done tight timelines for previous elections.
>>
>> If anyone has problems with this timeline, please do propose a better timeline.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -jeff
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