[Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I'm not behind a computer so not easy to do this on mobile unfortunately.

I'd probably just move everything up 1 week (since the first week from your timeline would be out in my proposal).

Bart

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> On 25 jul. 2015, at 18:43, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
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> Hi Bart,
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> Welcome back.
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> 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.
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> thanks,
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> -jeff
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> My 2 cents.
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>> Bart
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On 25 jul. 2015, at 13:36, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi Vasile, all,
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>>> 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).
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>>> So how to get moving.
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>>> 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)
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>>> Here is a new proposal:
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>>>  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)
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>>> It's a tight timeline (right up to FOSS4G-Seoul), but, we've done tight timelines for previous elections.
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>>> If anyone has problems with this timeline, please do propose a better timeline.
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> -jeff
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