[Board] charter member elections

[Jody Garnett]

Sorry I was skipping too quickly, the idea was for new board members to be
available for f2f meeting.

New charter members can happen at a consistent time irrespective of foss4g.
It may be good to be able to promote membership at foss4g to encourage
nominations

--
Jody Garnett

On 19 March 2016 at 14:07, 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>
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>> I agree with you that the timing is thrown off by foss4g being in august
>> this year.
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>> 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.
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> ​Is it really an issue if the first FOSS4G for new members is 2017 rather
> than 2016?
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> Best wishes,
> Anita​
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>> Jody Garnett
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>> 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:
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>>>> Taking a chance to round up outstanding activities from prior board
>>>> meetings - we have the following scheduled for march:
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>>>>    - Motion: Establish the fixed date of charter and board member
>>>>    election.
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>>> ​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).
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>>> How about October, when everyone is back from holidays?
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>>> Best wishes,
>>> Anita
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>>>>    -
>>>>    - Motion: Decide charter member election process by March not here
>>>>    now
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>>>> Here is the section of the f2f mins:
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>>>> Review Election process
>>>>>
>>>>>    - VC: Report past processes
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Last year, we adopted new rule allowing negative vote
>>>>>
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>>>>>    - MS: Discussion always starts August.
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>>>>>    - Some discussion about how to avoid hostile take-over
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>>>>>    - Very unlikely there would be any hostile take-over
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>>>>>    - 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?
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>>>>>    - It should be informed 3~4 months earlier before election begins.
>>>>>
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>>>>>    - August is not good time to carry out election because of FOSS4G
>>>>>    in August.
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>>>>>    - Can we have election in June? (JG)
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>>>>>    - Can we have election after FOSS4G? (DF)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Motion(JG): Decide charter member election process by March not
>>>>>    here now
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Second(AG)
>>>>>
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>>>>>    - Motion passed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Motion: Establish fixed date of charter and board member
>>>>>    election(MS)?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Vasile Seconded
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Motion Passed
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
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