[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Ravi Kumar]

I voted for a motion (2009) that limits a charter members vote to a Board nominee only once (not more that 1 even if voted more than once).
I was in the board on that day (IRC) when a motion was proposed. Remember that some were reluctant to change the existing pattern where in a charter member can vote as many times as the number of Board member slots. Then I felt that OK I will go with the tide and voted for the motion.

But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy member competing for the board. At the same time it might be rude not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce the chances of (his) the chosen one.
Hope the present charter will react to this. 

Ravi Kumar

________________________________
 From: Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us>
To: board at lists.osgeo.org 
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting
 
On 07/24/2012 02:47 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Can you please point me to what it says on the web.

Venka,
I am referring to the Elections page [1] which is a verbatim copy of
last year's, so does not really help at all.

Let's do some web archaeology (*):

The elections process page gives more insight, actually it was a change
edited by Frank explicitly disallowing weighed voting, see here: [2]

The change was a regular agenda item on the 2010-01-07 [3] Board meeting
and has been approved by the board. Everything open and correct.

It was brought in as an amendment of wording by Paul Ramsey [4], Jeff
McKenna and Tyler and supported by Christopher Schmidt.

The corresponding explanation can be found on the IRC log, search for
"08:03:33" at: [5].

> Since the Charter members are voting, I thing a
> consensus could be sought among the voters rather
> than the board.

You can add an item to the next board agenda including an explanation
why you suggest a change back.


We have discussed direct Charter Member votes before and it is still
simply not practical, we will not get anywhere. As CRO I am having the
closest experience with Charter Member responsiveness you can imagine.
It is hard enough to get the board attend regular meetings and cast
votes, anything more than that wont work.


Best regards,
Arnulf

(*) This is one great thing about the Web and how we run OSGeo - it is
really, really transparent. You might have to dig a bit, but it is all
there.

[1]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2012#Nominate_new_Board_Members_-_2012-07-23_-_2012-08-01
[2]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Proposed_Board_Election_Procedure&action=historysubmit&diff=44123&oldid=44122
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2010-01-07
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-10-08
[5] http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/%23osgeo.2009-10-08.log

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