[Board] charter member elections

[Anita Graser]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree with you that the timing is thrown off by foss4g being in august
> this year.
>
> If I remember the discussion the idea was to have new board members
> available at foss4g so they could be part of a f2f meeting. Asking asking
> members to vote in July conflicted with vacations giving us a June target.
> So the choice on date is one between travel costs and member connivence.
>


​Is it really an issue if the first FOSS4G for new members is 2017 rather
than 2016?

Best wishes,
Anita​











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>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 19 March 2016 at 13:11, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Taking a chance to round up outstanding activities from prior board
>>> meetings - we have the following scheduled for march:
>>>
>>>    - Motion: Establish the fixed date of charter and board member
>>>    election.
>>>
>>>
>> ​If we want to have all aspects decided upon 3-4 ​months before the
>> election, it seems more realistic to have the election after FOSS4G than in
>> June (since the holiday season should be avoided).
>>
>> How about October, when everyone is back from holidays?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>    -
>>>    - Motion: Decide charter member election process by March not here
>>>    now
>>>
>>> Here is the section of the f2f mins:
>>>
>>> Review Election process
>>>>
>>>>    - VC: Report past processes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Last year, we adopted new rule allowing negative vote
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - MS: Discussion always starts August.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Some discussion about how to avoid hostile take-over
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Very unlikely there would be any hostile take-over
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - But practically very vulnerable to hostile take-over. So, need to
>>>>    consider how to prevent that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Under current charter member election process, anybody could
>>>>    recommend charter member. In this case how could check his/her real
>>>>    intention?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Board need to decide whether limit the number of charter member
>>>>    or limit number of percentage?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - It should be informed 3~4 months earlier before election begins.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - August is not good time to carry out election because of FOSS4G
>>>>    in August.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Can we have election in June? (JG)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Can we have election after FOSS4G? (DF)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Motion(JG): Decide charter member election process by March not
>>>>    here now
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Second(AG)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Motion passed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Motion: Establish fixed date of charter and board member
>>>>    election(MS)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Vasile Seconded
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Motion Passed
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
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