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

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Sorry,
the question is the subject of the mail?
"extending deadline for board voting"

or is just an invitation for the future?

Sorry if I don't understand.

Maxi

2015-09-25 11:57 GMT+02:00 Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>:

> Forwarding you a message from Stephen Woodbridge.
>
> Best,
> Vasile
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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
>>
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