[Board] motions from June 18 meeting - making OSGeo Charter membership more exclusive

[Jorge Sanz]

2015-06-22 18:09 GMT+02:00 Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>:
> Margherita makes a very good point here, that if someone gets multiple NO
> votes then they are probably not a good candidate. That's what I would have
> thought as well.
>
> However, after last year's election I was extremely surprised to see that
> even the top-5 candidates which all got over 70% support also got 2-3 NO
> votes each:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014_detailed_results
>
> I don't understand why someone would vote NO for those 5 people as charter
> members given track record. I can only imagine that not everybody interprets
> the "NO" vote to mean the same thing...
>

I'm pretty sure of that Daniel, and we only can try to improve that
being well explicit on the instructions but still many people don't
read the explanations.

I remember watching someone votes (no name, just his/her votes) and I
was surprised of seeing a lot of NOes and thinking "he has not
understood what we wanted to mean by a YES/NO/Abstain".

We'll try this year to improve the instructions on the voting, definitely.


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