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

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

I'm not in favor of modifying the election schedule/calendar, well 
announced in advance. However, I do understand why, due to FOSS4G, some 
actions were delayed. I mean:

1. The request for nominees manifestos was announced very late. I'm 
sorry for not asking myself the nominees from the first place to add 
this information to wiki. It was on my todo list but got lost in course 
of action. I have to thank Steven for bringing this subject on the table.

2. Most of the nominees attended FOSS4G and were quite busy doing things 
during the conference and not being able add the manifesto or to answer 
to the questions from the community. Everyone should note that the 
manifesto is not mandatory according with the existing election process 
rules.

3. A lot of our charter members were also in Seoul and did not have the 
chance to give proper attention to the elections processes.

At this very moment, 180 charter members, from a total of 280, voted. I 
just sent to all of the remaining members a final reminder to vote. I'm 
willing to extend the deadline for 48 hours but not because of 
FOSS4G/manifesto issue. Also, I'm willing to spend my Sunday&Monday 
trying to get personally in touch with all the remaining 100 charter 
members via 
IRC/E-mail/Skype/Twitter/GitHub/Facebook/Linkedin/Whatsapp/Telegram/Telephone/etc 
to make sure that they know about the elections and to kindly ask them 
to vote. I'm totally against revoting. The manifesto is not mandatory 
according with our rules. I see no real purpose for someone to change 
their vote.

Best,
Vasile

PS I just noticed that most of our nominees for the board of directors 
did not vote yet. Of course, we are still in time. Anyway, please don't 
think that you have to abstain just because you are running for a seat 
in the board of directors. You are entitled to vote, even for your own name.


On 9/25/15 3:49 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> I agree with Steve's recommendation to extend the voting deadline.  I
> suggest next Friday, 2 October, end of day.  It is your call Vasile, as
> you know the amount of votes remaining.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-09-25 6:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>> 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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