[Board] Regarding MOT5: Accept nominations for President and Vice-President from members with experience on the board

[Massimiliano Cannata]

I forgot to say that I think lomio is not good for our community as it is
too closed.

If the point is having a voting mechanism we could search for open platform
on our infrastructure... Limesurvey or others..

Lomio to me is to exclusive requesting subscription...

VIVA OSGeo

Maxi

Il 05 nov 2016 10:04 AM, "Massimiliano Cannata" <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> ha scritto:

> My position on this MOT5 is that the president and vice-president should
> be selected among the board of directors.
>
> There is no clue and legal basis for deciding that "members with
> experience on the board" are eligible while others don't: anybody could
> have great leader ship: or are we a closed community?
>
> Moreover there's a dissociation between the president role and the
> decision making process in the case he's not a current director.
>
> Moreover if you've not been elected in the board it means that you have
> not been trusted enough to have a decisional role in our community (I also
> speak for myself here :-) ).
>
> OSGeo siempre ;-)
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 05 nov 2016 3:14 AM, "Venkatesh Raghavan" <
> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> ha scritto:
>
>> Dear Board,
>>
>> I prefer that discussion on such matters take place on the  board
>> mailing list to which more than a hundred of our members
>> (with or without board experience) are subscribed rather that
>> on loomio where only 10 of our members have currently joined.
>>
>> My view on "MOT5: Accept nominations for President and Vice-President
>> from members with experience on the board"
>>
>> a) To the best of my knowledge, the board has not set any precedence
>> wherein the President was not an member elected by our charter members.
>>
>> b) OSGeo regional Vice-President was new position that was created
>> in January 2016 with the aim of sharing the workload with
>> the President and board. There is no precedence of Vice-Presidents being
>> appointed from outside of our elected* board membership.
>>
>> (*In some instances we have the precedence of board member
>> vacancies being filled in by members who had secured highest number
>> of  votes among the candidates who contested for the election
>> but had not been been elected)
>>
>> c) We also do not have a precedence of calling for nominations
>> from outside the Board to fill in the positions of President and
>> newly created positions of regional Vice-Presidents.
>>
>> d) I feel that for the smooth conduct of the day-to-day affairs
>> of OSGeo, the President and regional Vice-Presidents  should
>> be members *elected* to the board who can cast their valid vote
>> on motions brought before the board.
>>
>> e) Our bylaws do permit us to appoint officers to our committees
>> from our charter members (as in the case of Treasurer, Secretary,
>> Project Officers, Committees) or even outside of the charter
>> membership.
>>
>> f) I am all for making full use of the rich experience and tremendous
>> capabilities of charter members (with or without board experience).
>> However, I would like to reiterate my view of the President and regional
>> Vice-President being appointed by the board from among the elected
>> board members.
>>
>> In light of the above, I strongly disagree with "MOT5:
>> Accept nominations for President and Vice-President from
>> members with experience on the board" and suggest that we
>> continue with our existing practice of appointing the OSGeo President
>> and regional Vice-Presidents from among the elected board
>> members.
>>
>> I have pasted a link of this mail to the MOT5 thread currently
>> being voted on loomio and have also voted on MOT5 expressing
>> my (strong) disagreement to MOT5 on loomio.
>>
>> Lastly, I feel that loomio can be used for voting and keeping
>> a public record of our motions, but the discussions on motions
>> can be on the open (in rare cases private) board mailing list.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
>>
>>
>>
>>
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