[OSGeo-Conf] [Board] Amended MOTION (items 1-5): Conference Committee - Updating Membership Policies and Process

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Eli, @all,

indeed this is a different question and before I read your example of 4 
people having read the full proposals instead of 8, that just skimmed 
through it, I'd have said, that we for sure need a 50% quorum.

But, thinking about this for as while, I still think that 50% quorum is 
needed: I do not want to say, that the CC is the "most important" 
committee, but it cares for our most important flagship:
Our global conference. So if I want to be member of that committee, 
everybody in and around OSGeo can expect, that I will do my job.
My opinion: If I will not do my job, you can remove me from the 
committee, because I am useless and I just occupy a position, other 
motivated people want to have but presumably can't.

I think the idea of Steven, to reduce the voting numbers to 11 helps us 
to catch up with that problem. If we have 11 interested, motivated and 
engaged people, with 1-2 coming in and 1-2 leaving every year, we should 
be able to have at least more than 4 people reading the proposals and 
more than 5 people, who vote.

Regards, Till


Am 2016-09-27 00:03, schrieb Eli Adam:
> Hi Maria and all,
>
> Maybe it was missed in the length of the other thread.  I had some
> specific question and cited specific examples.  What are your 
> thoughts
> on these items?
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
> <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>> Here the amended motion.
>>
>> In my opinion it is the very time of voting  to be able to go ahead.
>>
>> It is better to vote before for  1) in such a way that we have a 
>> procedure
>> and then vote for 2-5.
>>
>> Steven, I leave you to decide the time.
>>
>> Best.
>> Maria
>>
>>
>> 1) For the voting procedures of the Conference Committee the Board 
>> Voting
>> procedure  made milder with the introduction of a 50 % quorum is 
>> adopted.
>>
>
> I'd like to propose quorum of greater than or equal to 25%.  Is that
> agreeable to you?
>
> I think that we need to be based on reality, not ideals.  Here are
> some OSGeo projects with votes less than 50% including the conference
> committee making the most important decision it makes every year.  To
> me these represent continued success, not failure.
>
> https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-132
> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-89.html
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/44
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc63_sparse_datasets_improvements
>
> These projects have many more votes with greater than 50%
> participation; maybe those were more interesting topics or better
> timed with personal events in people's lives.
>
>>
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> 2) The number of members of the Conference Committee is equal to 17.
>
> Previously Paul made a call for everyone who didn't vote to resign,
> 
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2012-April/001723.html
> and I think that was generally poorly received.  Subsequently I think
> Cameron did something like that with the intent of spurring people
> into action (which worked).
>
> 50% is fine with me except to keep the committee functional, we need
> to routinely raise motions to remove committee members who haven't
> voted.  I think a better method is a lower quorum.  Both work but one
> seems unfriendly.
>
> What do other committee members think?  What is a reasonable and
> obtainable quorum percentage?  Is removing members for lack of
> participation a good idea?
>
> I'd rather the votes of 4 people who read three entire 50+ page
> proposals than the votes of 8 people who skimmed the proposals or of
> those same 4 people after removing the non-voting other 4 yielding
> 100% voting.
>
> I'm glad that we're clarifying our operating procedures on the 
> committee.
>
> Best regards, Eli
>
>
>>
>> 3) The retirement policy adopted by the Conference Committee is the 
>> same as
>> that of the Board.
>>
>> Conference Committee  membership is for a 2 year term with half of 
>> the
>> Conference Committee seats coming up for election each year.
>>
>> 4) The present Committee continues for an year and we hold election 
>> in 2017
>> with the 9 seats  (9 of the longest serving members vacating their 
>> seats in
>> Conference Committee) coming up for election.
>>
>> 5) Voting for Conference Committee members is restricted to the 
>> remaining
>> Conference Committee members and Board members who are not members 
>> of the
>> Conference Committee
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------
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>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
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