[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Nomination for new Charter Members has ended

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi!

FWIW, I support Arnulf's proposal to accept all the 37 nominees as charter
members. I don't see the need to disappoint 7 willing valid people who have
received a nomination and support from the community.

Thanks Arnulf for the hard work

Cheers
madi


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us>wrote:

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> All,
> this is a minor correction, we actually have 37 potential new members!
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> Sorry for this mistake.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
>
> On 24.07.2013 10:55, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
> > Board, the nomination for new Charter Members has ended. We have 35
> > nominees, please find all the details here:
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2013
> >
> > As per board motion from 2013-07-11 [1] we limit the influx of new
> > member to 30. This (arbitrary) decision was taken because 30 is a
> > nice compromise between 10% and one third of the number of the
> > existing membership (14 and 48 new members) which are the limits as
> > per our bylaws.
> >
> > I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into
> > Charter membership. I can see no reason that would justify
> > excluding anybody from this great list of nominees and we are still
> > well in scope of our bylaws. If you firmly believe that an election
> > is crucial to our mission and goal I will duly follow your advice
> > and start the elections tomorrow (2013-07-25). I am sorry that this
> > is a very short notice to change something so important.
> >
> > I suggest that one of you starts a motion stating something along
> > the lines of: "I motion to accept all 35 nominees into Charter
> > Membership and override the decision taken in the last board
> > meeting."
> >
> >
> > Ideally we will be able to get +1 votes from all board members
> > asap. In case of strong objection please answer with a veto (-1)
> > immediately in which case I will take a deep breath, sigh and
> > continue with the elections.
> >
> >
> > Best regards, Arnulf
> >
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Best regards,

Dr. Margherita DI LEO
Scientific / technical project officer

European Commission - DG JRC
Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
Via Fermi, 2749
I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261

Tel. +39 0332 78 3600
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