<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-06-13 23:31 GMT+02:00 Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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Hi Jorge and Alex, (cc board)<br>
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As per last board meeting:<br>
<i>In response, the OSGeo board has agreed to trial tweaking the
voting process. The aim is to automatically accept recognised
OSGeo community leaders. We are inviting comments from the
community to help us tweak the process, and I have been allocated
the task of collecting and incorporating community feedback.</i><br>
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Digging around, it seems there are 2 pages needing updating:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process</a> (draft being worked at
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014</a>)<br>
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I notice one thing needing updating is that we are switching from
using an "email to the CRO" to using limesurvey. Alex, and/or Jorge,
I think you know the details for this? Could you please update
<a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014</a> to describe the
use of LimeSurvey.<br>
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I'll continue over the next 14 hours or so updating these 2 pages
with proposed new text, will send to the board email list for
comment, then email to osgeo-discuss asking for comment in 24 hours.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I've updated the Membership process 2014[1] and the Electronic Voting[2] wiki pages with details about the election procedure and the LimeSurvey system.</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Electronic_Voting">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Electronic_Voting</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Some comments on my own:</div><div><br></div><div>- We should state that if all the community leader seats are not filled, they will be available to regular nominees to complete the reverse case already documented.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- On a tie for two or more nominees, I would prefer to avoid a random process resolution and just accept all of them. Well I'm the CRO so it's normal that I don't want to be on that position, but anyway I think it makes no sense to let a random process to discard one or more nominated individuals.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- I agree with Even about stating clearly that two ways to accept new Charter Members doesn't implies any difference afterwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking on Arnulf last comment, I wonder if we should increase the number of positions. On the last meeting we decided 20 (10+10) but maybe 10 seats for non community leaders is quite restrictive if you think on all good people on Local Chapters that are not coders or simply project focused, but working on education, outreach, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Last year we had 37 new Charter Members, how many of them fit on the "community leaders" category? not so many. Thinking aloud, maybe we can just accept all the community leaders, and then restrict the regular voting process to the remaining up to the third. So if we have 20 leaders in, then we have 34 seats to offer to the voting process (54 is a third of our current CM list).<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>My own vision is to have as many CM as possible, so probably no election would be needed as we Increase every year our people, but I understand that others would agree on a membership that is harder to get and that an election is healthy to a community and wouldn't discourage to people to participate if they don't get it on the first try. Another very different topic is adding meaning to being a member, but that's a discussion probably better after the summer :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Jorge Sanz<br><a href="http://www.osgeo.org" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz</a>
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