[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I'm looking at the survey too and feel a bit the same as Peter. The first 
question seems to suggest transforming current Charter membership into regular 
membership, but following questions seem to leave open the possibility for the 
2 kinds of membership.

Perhaps the first question should be turned into the following choices
- should there be a regular membership only ?
- should there be a charter membership only ?
- should there be both ?

and then questions to define the rights, duties and access conditions for each 
membership category.

Anyway thanks for your efforts to capture opinions. This isn't an easy 
exercice. Yes/no referendum are more common and even in that case, it seems 
that the people asking the question cannot always properly interpret the 
result ;-)

Even


> Hi Vasile & all,
> 
> having tried to fill in the questionnaire I see one main issue: It seems
> like "OSGeo Charter membership" =" OSGeo membership".
> Not sure it is intended, as my feeling (which may be wrong) is that a
> Charter member is more like an advisory board member whereas general
> membership is where all the enthusiasts come together. Both make sense, but
> IMHO should be differentiated in the questions.
> 
> my 2 cents, acting as Guinean Pig ;-)
> Peter
> 
> On 2015-07-30 15:46, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> > Thanks everyone for feedback. I did my best to incorporate your
> > suggestions in the survey. The Charter members will receive e-mail
> > invitations to fill the survey in the following minutes. If you are a
> > charter member and the invitation fail to reach your inbox in the next
> > couple of hours, please get in touch with me privately.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vasile
> > CRO 2015
> > 
> > On 7/27/15 3:26 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >> 
> >> Please accept my apologies for all the delays related to this survey.
> >> 
> >> You can all check the actual structure of the survey at
> >> 
> >> https://survey.des.ucdavis.edu/osgeo/index.php/survey/index/sid/879386/ne
> >> wtest/Y/lang/en
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> *Please do not execute the survey!* Separate invitations will be sent to
> >> all our charter members as soon as we agree with the survey structure.
> >> 
> >> I have tried to include help text, comments and references for all the
> >> important question, especially the one related to the charter member
> >> election mechanism - this part may look a little bit bureaucratic, any
> >> suggestions fore improvement more than welcome. A simple application was
> >> created to allow you to understand the impact of the selected formula
> >> and threshold using the last year votes. You can access the application
> >> at
> >> 
> >> http://geo-spatial.org/charter2014-sim/
> >> 
> >> A link was included in the survey too.
> >> 
> >> Any comments, requests for change or to include additional questions are
> >> welcome. Please respond ASAP as the time is running fast.
> >> 
> >> Best,
> >> Vasile
> >> 
> >> OSGeo 2015 CRO
> >> 
> >> On 7/26/15 8:36 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> >>> So is there a proposal for the survey questions already somewhere?
> >>> 
> >>> Bart
> >>> 
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >> 
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