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

[David Fawcett]

+1 to Michael and Guido

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> 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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> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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