[Board] Kicking off Elections 2015 process

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

With a little bit of help from Jorge and the community I can take this 
responsibility (or parts of the work).

Best,
Vasile

On 5/25/15 10:32 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> El 25/05/2015 18:20, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> escribió:
>  >
>  > Hi Board, all,
>  >
>  > I'd like to make sure we begin the OSGeo Elections process, for both
> Charter members and Board members.
>  >
>  > I've added this to the next Board meeting agenda, but, we
> shouldn't/can't wait that long to begin, so, here are some tasks:
>  >
>  > 1. Ask for volunteer to manage the 2015 Elections process
>  > ---------------------------------------------------------
>  >
>  > This is for the CRO (Chief Returning Officer) position[1].  Jorge did
> a great job last year, and setup an electronic voting system that will
> likely be used again this year.  Do we have any volunteers for this year?
>  >
>  > Note that what I found worked well last year, was Jorge as CRO but
> having at least 2 others CC-ed in the cro@ alias, I think it was Jachym
> and myself, to follow along and help where needed.  It is a big task for
> one person.
>  >
>
> Hi,
>
> I won't run this year for the CRO role. Last year I worked on July and
> August on a reduced schedule that allowed me some time to work for this
> task. This year, on the contrary, as I changed my job, I won't have that
> and besides frankly, it's really consuming most of my time and energy so
> I can't see myself on that duty again.
>
> On the other hand it's my second year serving on the Board. If I run
> again for the reelection I can't be the CRO anyway.
>
> The biggest issue as a CRO is during the charter member nominations,
> every nomination takes several tasks that seed to be done to assure the
> nominee is accepting, the wiki is well feeded with the supports and all.
>
> I will volunteer as CRO "backup". As Jeff said, it's a also a very
> important role, much needed because we are humans and errors happen so
> having someone looking on your shoulder is really appreciated. I will
> help and assist also on the voting system, it's in fact the easiest part
> IMO.
>
> Actually I'm thinking that during nominations we don't need to put all
> the work in just one person. Tracking the nominee, the wiki edits and
> all can be shared over more than one people. Maybe we can use Trac for
> this? Just taking ideas from top of my head
>
> Later when the nomination is finished yes, just one person in charge of
> the voting process is OK I think.
>
> I remember Eli giving good advice for the process, by the way. I'd love
> to hear ideas or comments on how to make this easier and reproducible.
>
>  >
>  > 3. Decide on 2015 Selection Process
>  > -----------------------------------
>  >
>  > To refresh everyone's memory, last year we (Board) modified the
> selection process[3] for Charter members; but in my opinion we made a
> mistake with the voting change of "Each candidate with more YES votes
> than NO votes, and greater than 5% of voting charter members voting YES
> for them, will be included as new charter members."
>  >
>  > What I saw was, for the first time in OSGeo history, strategic
> nominations by certain projects, for relatively unknown community
> members; the result was that all 64 nominations were accepted as Charter
> members.
>  >
>  > For 2015, I am proposing we make 1 change, instead of the 5%
> acceptance, change that to 50% or greater voting YES.   Such as:
>  >
>  > ***
>  > Each candidate with more YES votes than NO votes, and greater than or
> equal to 50% of voting charter members voting YES for them, will be
> included as new charter members.
>  > ***
>  >
>
> I agree with this change and share Jeff views about being a little bit
> more strict on the support requested by the membership.
>
> Cheers
> Jorge
>
>
>
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