[Board] Fwd: Fwd: Consider extending deadline for board voting

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Forwarding you a message from Stephen Woodbridge.

Best,
Vasile


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Subject: Fwd: Consider extending deadline for board voting
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:52:42 -0400
From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
To: Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>

Vasile,

I tried sending this to the board list, but I guess only board members
are subscribed to that list or maybe I have to sub to the list if it is
open. Anyway please feel free to forward this to the board.

I already looked that the candidates and voted so maybe it is not that
big of a deal, but I think it would make sense to to consider these
ideas for the future to improve our overall voting process. I think this
year went pretty smoothly overall, so excellent job on your part.

Thanks,
   -Steve

On 9/24/2015 5:33 PM, Mail Delivery System wrote:
> Subject: Consider extending deadline for board voting
> From: Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
> Date: 9/24/2015 5:19 PM
>
> To: board at lists.osgeo.org
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure you have already considered this but I think it might be a good
> idea to consider extending the deadline for board voting because a lot
> of the candidates have been at FOSSG and/or other conferences and I
> think it would be good to get the candidates to respond to these
> questions. Vasile already mention that about 1/2 the members have
> already voted, so maybe it is moot at this point.
>
> Regardless of whether this does or does not happen this year, I think
> that it would be a good idea to make it part of the planning from future
> elections. You might have a schedule like:
>
> * cut-off date for nominations
> * 1 week for candidates to answers a fix set of questions
> * then the elections
>
> You might even consider putting in place something where any candidate
> that does not answer the questionnaire would get dropped from the voting
> because if they can not make time to post answers, then you might want
> to consider that they also might not have time for spending on board
> related activities. While I understand that schedule conflicts for that
> week might occur having a schedule and know the plan should allow them
> to work around that. And maybe they would have more time in a future
> election.
>
> Anyway, thanks for all you have done to keep OSGeo running!
>
> Best regards,
>    -Steve W