[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Voting for new OSGeo Charter Members open until6th June 2008

[Steve Lime]

Looking at the list I was thinking the exact same thing and would support a blanket invitation
as well...

Steve

>>> On 5/30/2008 at 3:16 PM, in message
<cdf6db500805301316q378f3830lb9e02cc5ad653439 at mail.gmail.com>, "P Kishor"
<punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM,  <jo at frot.org> wrote:
>> dear all,
>>
>> The list of nominations for new OSGeo Charter Members is here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008 
>>
>> From today until the end of Friday 6th June 2008, votes for
>> 15 new Charter Members are being accepted at cro at osgeo.org 
> 
> This is a great list. Each one of those listed would be (well, already
> is) a great asset to the OSGeo cause and community. There are only 18
> on that list, so that means 3 will be left out. My vote? Charter-ify
> all 18 of them.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>  * Only Charter Members are eligible to vote!
>>  * Please email cro at osgeo.org with a list of names 15 lines
>>   long (one vote per new member slot)
>>  * Votes can be for 15 different people, or the same person
>>   15 times, or any balance in between.
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008 has more links.
>>
>> Charter Members are responsible for electing the Board of the
>> OSGeo Foundation. The initial group of Charter Members was the 25
>> people in the Free and Open Source Geospatial community who attended
>> the "startup" meeting of the Foundation in Chicago on 4th Feb. 2006
>>
>> This group later selected another 20 Charter Members and they in turn
>> elected the first complete Board in the summer of 2006. In 2007 another
>> 15 Charter Members were elected to the Foundation (one stood down).
>> The current list is at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members 
>>
>> http://www.osgeo.org/membership explains why the Charter Membership
>> exists, basically as an attempt to guarantee the ongoing integrity
>> of the Board as representative of the community at large.
>> This is seen as more stable, and less liable to "hijack", than
>> granting a vote in exchange for payment (like the OpenStreetmap Foundation)
>> or in exchange for measurable contribution (like Wikimedia's Foundation)
>>
>> This year's nominations again, for those who read this far:
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008 
>>
>>
>> jo
>> --
>>
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