[Board] UN Meeting

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

For completeness, the main point under discussion was the one related to voting procedures.

"Everyday topics will be decided upon by an open vote of all list participants in a clearly designated separate mail thread (+1/-1) over a minimum of two business days with a minimum participation of 3 votes. Ideally we aim for consensus falling back on simple majority vote where necessary. The result will be clearly declared afterwards (or whatever is decided)."

I believed (and still believe) that for important decisions as those of the CC, we need more participation in voting, i.e. a quorum of 50 %.

As far as I have understood there is a handful of such decisions a year.

After a long discussion about this topic, what was suggested by many volunteers (of the CC or not of the CC) is that the governance has to be decided by the Board and the CC decides only on the Conferences.

Here we are: we will discuss this topic in next Board meeting.



An for precision: when we made this discussion and I proposed to put the decision of governance in the hand of the Board, I was not in  the Board.


Lovely day.

Maria







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Da: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
Inviato: lunedì 10 ottobre 2016 22.38
A: Anita Graser; board at lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [Board] UN Meeting



On 11/10/2016 4:53 AM, Anita Graser wrote:
> The board micro-managed the conference com? (I'm asking because I
> have not read the entire thread on the conf mailing list.) Any way,
> lets try not to repeat this process with the UNCom.
Hi Anita,
I suggest read the thread embedded into my last email I've just CCed to
the board.
It doesn't include everything, but does include enough that you should
get an idea.

The quick summary:
* After a conference committee face-to-face meeting at FOSS4G, Steven
took on an action to clarify conference committee procedures.
* He did this, put it out for comment, actioned feedback, then put to
the proposal to vote
* He received positive feedback from majority of the conference
committee, and two -1 vetos from Venka and Maria (who are also on the
board).
* This resulted in 120+ emails, and a stalemate.
* Maria has suggested to solve the problem of voting rules by putting on
the board agenda. (Hence the implication of being micro-managed by the
board)

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Cameron Shorter
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