[OSGeo-Conf] [OSgeo-Conf] Nomination of Michael Terner & Guido Stein as official voting members of CC / Call4Vote until 02.02, .2018

[Eli Adam]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan
<venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/2018 11:31 PM, Till Adams wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> no, I did not nomnate Gerald. Gerald was nominated by Venke month ago.
>
>
> To set the record straight, I nominated Michael Terner and Gerald
> in August 2017.
>
> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-August/004430.html

In my opinion, that is not a nomination.  That is a tangential
off-topic commentary.  Reviewing how we operate,

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Decisions see #3

" ...clearly designated separate mail thread over a minimum of 2
business days with a minimum participation of 3 votes."

The subject of that thread is: "[OSGeo-Conf] [Board] [FOSS4G-2019 RFP]
Re: f2f meeting follow up" which sounds nothing like "MOTION: nominate
Michael Terner to Conference Committee"

Even if it was a nomination, I don't think that it attracted any
responses so therefore would have failed due to lack of participation.

That might have been due to the focus on "[OSGeo-Conf] Start 2019 RFP
/ Board discussion about RFP for FOSS4G-2019",
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-August/004440.html

It also would have been difficult to complete membership changes
before the RFP process and it is a bad idea to run them at the same
time.


> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2017-August/004428.html

This is closer to a proper nomination and motion.  Why it didn't
attract any participation is uncertain.


It looks like we should maybe review our membership process that we
spent so much time discussing.
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Membership


I point this out not to be critical, but to encourage the proper
process and increase the likelihood of consideration and participation
on motions.  Look how obvious the motions are here,
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2017-November/thread.html
in the list archives but also people's inboxes.  Keeping motions to
one topic in clearly designated separate threads, after there has been
any needed discussion makes the process flow more easily.

Best regards, Eli

>
> Venka
>
>>
>> Till
>>
>>
>> Am 25.01.2018 um 18:32 schrieb Steven Feldman:
>>>
>>> +1 Guido
>>> +1 Michael
>>>
>>> I am not clear whether Till (as chair) has also nominated Gerard or
>>> not? In case this is up for a vote my vote is -0 (no disrespect to
>>> Gerard - please see my responses to Till’s other mail to the list for
>>> explanation)
>>> ______
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 23 Jan 2018, at 11:37, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
>>>> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear CC!
>>>>
>>>> As already signalized in my previous email, I'd like to nominate the two
>>>> chairs of the 2017 Boston FOSS4G as new voting members of our conference
>>>> committee. Hereby I nominate
>>>>
>>>> - Guido Stein
>>>>
>>>> - Michael Terner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please discuss and vote on my nomination until 2nd of February 2018.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Till
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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