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

[Landon Blake]

+1 on making all 18 charter members. I know I can personally vouch for
both Martin Davis and Markus Lupp.

Landon

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

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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Puneet Kishor
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