[OSGeo-Discuss] Nominations

[Chris Holmes]

Rich Steele wrote:
> Jason Birch wrote:
> 
> 
>>It was pointed out to me that while the bylaws permit this, the
> 
> current
> 
>>call for nominations explicitly limited them to voting members.  I
> 
> think
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>>that this should be reconsidered for the next board elections so that
> 
> we
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>>don't exclude anyone that the voting members think have merit.
> 
> 
> Aha.  I see that the email from ChrisH announcing the opening of board
> nominations added this line:  "Nomination to a board position is now
> open to any **voting member** of the Foundation" (emphasis mine)
> 
> This was not in the original wiki posting here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Proposed_Board_Election_Procedure
> 
> So I missed this nuance.  My apologies.
Yeah, I actually am not sure how/why I put that in the email, but that 
email was approved as the one to send out by the board.  I'm more 
inclined for board membership not being limited to voting members, and 
was going to change it in the email I sent out, but the version I sent 
had already been approved by the board.  So I'd say for this election 
the text is that you must be a voting member, in the future, as per the 
bylaws, it will be open to all.  If there is a non-voting member who 
really wants to go for a board position, they could perhaps talk to the 
board about changing the text.

best regards,

Chris

> 
> FWIW, I agree that board membership should not necessarily be limited to
> voting members of the foundation.  I also think that a non-voting member
> director would likely be proposed and accepted for voting membership at
> a subsequent foundation election (since that person would likely have
> demonstrated through board service the requisite commitment to OSGeo).
> 
> -Rich
> 
> 
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Chris Holmes
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