Proposed Membership Process

[Tyler Mitchell]

Looking through my archive, this message/process for nominations hasn't
been clearly wrapped up.  Has the board accepted the approach?

I would like to have a clear message that I can send to other lists and
contacts who are interested.  I know people have been discussing
nominations and sending them in, but I haven't seen an official call for
nominations on this list.  Did I just miss it?  It would help to sum up
the discussion, explain the approach and give a few more days for
nominations.

Tyler



Gary Lang wrote:
> Agreed. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> (External)
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:30 PM
> To: Dave McIlhagga (External)
> Cc: discuss at lists.osgeo.org; Rich Steele
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [MSF-Discuss] Proposed Membership
> Process
> 
> On 2/8/06, Dave McIlhagga <dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> 
>>I like the proposed approach too -- (7 or 10 votes works for me - 
>>preference for 10)
>>
>>So that we can more formally proceed Frank - could you get approval 
>>from the board to proceed and report to the list?
> 
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> Board members,
> 
> Please consider this a motion to adopt the procedure, ammended to give
> each voter 10 votes for new members instead of 3.  If you email me your
> agreement (or lack thereof) I'll announce it adopted if I have two
> others agreeing.  The adjusted process would read:
> 
> 	Second Tranche Membership Process
> 	=================================
> 
> In Chicago it was resolved to add a second tranche of members as quickly
> as practical after the meeting, bringing our membership up to 45.
> 
> The process is:
> 
> 1) Membership nominations will be accepted until 9am pacific time
>    on Thursday February 16th.  Nominations should be emailed to
>    the chicago at osgeo.org email address.   Each nomination should
>    include the name of the nominated person, and up to one paragraph
>    of explanation for why they are a good candidate.
> 
> 2) Laura Rivera will collect the nominations, including the identity
>    of the nominator into a document.  If a person is nominated multiple
>    times all the nominating text will be included (grouped together).
>    This nomination summary will be distributed to the
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>    public list as a "call for votes" by 11:00am pacific time on
>    Friday February 17th.
> 
> 3) Votes will be submitted to Laura by email (at chicago at osgeo.org), and
>    she will collect them until 11:00am pacific time on February 22nd.
>    Only members may vote, and each member may vote give 10 votes for
>    candidates for membership.  All votes should be in one email from the
>    member, and the member who is voting should be clearly identified.
> 
> 4) Laura will tally votes by candidate and order them, submitting them
> to
>    the board for final approval.  In case of ties (very likely) the
> board
>    will select from the tied group to complete the 24 candidates using
>    whatever criteria it sees fit to use.
> 
> 5) The new members will be announced to the list once approved by the
> board.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
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