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

[Jody Garnett]

We have a few more weeks left on our evaluation of loomio:
- So far I like the fact that it makes making voting clear, it is easier to
follow then voting email threads
- but agree that discussion is not being effective

My take is that we need more discussion before these meetings to be
effective. With checking the email list (or loomio) every 1 to 2 days
communication is not quite smooth enough to form a conversation.

I quite liked having the breakout session to go over committee guidelines
(it was an easier conversation). There is still room to improve, example -
ensure we record action items (and follow up on them).

--
Jody Garnett

On 4 November 2016 at 19:14, Venkatesh Raghavan <
raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> 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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