[Board] motions from June 18 meeting

[Jeff McKenna]

Thank you Bart, for quoting me.

Call it what you want, push, whatever words you need.  Yes, we care.

-jeff



On 2015-06-20 10:05 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> in the last board meeting, only 2 days ago you wrote literally:
>
> 14:48:11	jmckenna:	we are running out of time
> 14:48:19	jmckenna:	(as in for the 2015 elections)
> 14:48:24	jmckenna:	it must be started now
>
>
> I’m still -1 on pushing this as a board decision only.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
>> On 20 Jun 2015, at 15:00, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Bart, it is not too late.  Where did the elections dates this year on
>> the wiki come from?  My head - I knew this discussion would take time.
>> Please check last year's dates, they were much later and tight.  We
>> have time, the dates were picked randomly by me and can be easily
>> changed through a wiki edit.
>>
>> One month ago, if you felt so strongly about this, you could have
>> driven this, read my email, picked up the ball, and brought it to the
>> community.
>>
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-06-20 9:49 AM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>> -1 Bart
>>>
>>> I don’t feel we as the board can push this without consulting the
>>> broader community on it, and it’s too late to do it for this round of
>>> elections IMHO.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bart
>>>
>>>> On 19 Jun 2015, at 21:29, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org
>>>> <mailto:vasile at geo-spatial.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Please also vote for motion bellow.
>>>>
>>>> 5) For the new charter members elections, change the threshold of
>>>> required YES votes of charter members from 5% to 50%. See Jeff's
>>>> e-mail [1] for detailed explanations and the rationale of this
>>>> change. If needed, also check the Membership Process [2].
>>>>
>>>> My vote is +1.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Vasile
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2015-May/012863.html
>>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/19/15 7:09 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> minutes from yesterday'€™s board meeting are available at:
>>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-06-18
>>>>> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-05-21>
>>>>>
>>>>> Motions to vote on:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Approve past meeting's minutes
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Accept OSGeo-BE as an official OSGeo Local Chapter with Dirk Frigne
>>>>> as liaison officer
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Move along with the 2015 election process with Vasile Craciunescu as
>>>>> CRO for 2015
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) Approve to fund OSGeo President’s travel to FOSS4G Seoul including
>>>>> hotel & air fares in amount of USD3,000. The topic was not discussed
>>>>> during the meeting but it was already agreed in past years and the
>>>>> prices (hotel, plane) can go up if we  wait until the meeting in Como.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Vasile
>>>>>
>>>>>
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