[Board] charter member elections

[Helena Mitasova]

> On Mar 19, 2016, at 5:07 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
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> 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?

I don’t think it matters and I agree with Anita that we should hold the elections in October rather than in June.

Helena

> 
> Best wishes,
> Anita​
> 
> 
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> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 19 March 2016 at 13:11, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
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> 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
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> Jody Garnett
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Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, 
Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
and Center for Geospatial Analytics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
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