[OSGeo-Conf] 2012 Final Step: Voting

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Dave,

There was never a tie-breaking process outlined.  Here are 2 options:

1) remove myself as Chair from this next round vote and future votes

2) add Peter Batty into the committee and next round vote (he was going 
to be nominated/added after foss4g).  I will be talking to him shortly 
about this (but he has a lot on his plate).

I'd like to keep this vote within this OSGeo Conference Committee.

Thoughts?

-jeff



On 11-09-02 4:55 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote:
> Jeff - I'm not clear on how this will break the tie.
>
> Did we ever come up with a tie-breaking process? If not -- I wonder if it should be referred to the Board for a vote since that would be the next step in the approval process?
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> Dave
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> On 2011-09-02, at 3:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
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>> Thank you to all committee members, all the votes are now received. Unfortunately, the result is an exact tie: 7 votes for Beijing and 7 votes for Prague.
>>
>> There is no choice now but to open the discussion/question period again (in fact from reading the submitted votes, the few public votes and vote explanations played a large part in several decisions).  So now the schedule is:
>>
>>   Additional Question period: now to Tuesday 6th
>>   Final Voting:               7th-9th
>>
>> Finally, I ask that your vote remain private (there was a long discussion on this years ago here and the overwhelming decision was to keep these private), but do share your questions and thoughts on this mailing list for everyone.
>>
>> I am sorry to not be able to announce this today, I was really hoping we could.  Downside of this: even less time for the winning team to put together a presentation for the final Denver plenary.
>>
>> -jeff
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>>>
>>>> On 11-08-29 5:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>> Thank you to both teams for answering the OSGeo Conference Committee's
>>>>> questions regarding the proposals.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would ask that all OSGeo Conference Committee members email me their
>>>>> selection privately for 2012: "Beijing" or "Prague" - please email me
>>>>> before the end of your Thursday (Sept 1st) day. If there is a majority
>>>>> in the voting results, we'll announce the winner on Friday. Hopefully
>>>>> this still gives the winner some time to prepare a short 'invitation'
>>>>> presentation for the 10 minute slot in the closing plenary in Denver on
>>>>> September 16th (see Day 5: 3:30pm-3:40pm
>>>>> http://2011.foss4g.org/program/session-schedule).
>>>>>
>>>>> Background info:
>>>>>
>>>>> - proposals: http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp
>>>>>
>>>>> - OSGeo Committee Members:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thierry Badard
>>>>> Arnulf Christl
>>>>> Gavin Fleming
>>>>> Steve Lime
>>>>> Dave McIlhagga
>>>>> Helena Mitasova
>>>>> Markus Neteler
>>>>> Claude Philipona
>>>>> Venkatesh Raghavan
>>>>> Paul Ramsey
>>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>>> Frank Warmerdam
>>>>> Lorenzo Becchi
>>>>> Jeff McKenna
>>>>>
>>>>> (I've already discussed with Peter Batty about his involvement in this
>>>>> committee after Denver)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks everyone, this is exciting!
>>>>>
>>>>> -jeff
>>>