[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidates: what are your plans?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I think this happened on last year’s elections, at least I remember sending out such an e-mail (not sure what came of those things I wrote down back then though ;-) ).

Also, since we are looking for a new treasurer, I would be really interested to know which potential board member is good with finances and might be up for that role. As stated by Daniel before, someone from the US would be the best fit given the US tax systems etc.

Best regards,
Bart

On 20 Aug 2014, at 22:41, Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm relatively new to OSGeo (at least the organisational part), but
> I'm a bit surprised by the board elections.
> I'm seeing two phases: a nomination phase and a voting phase. I double
> checked and last year it was the same. In my opinion we are missing
> the most important step: a "campaigning period". I'd like to know what
> each candidate would like to do, how they see the future of OSGeo,...
> 
> Now - don't get me wrong- we have (up to now) 7 excellent candidates
> for 5 positions, and probably many other charter members have done so
> much for the community that they deserve to be on the board. But as
> much as I would like to thank all of them, I would like to use
> different criteria for selecting board members.What are your vision
> and goals? Where should OSGeo head to? What about the financial
> situation? I'd like to know each candidate's vision before voting.
> 
> Actually, all other volunteer run organisations where I've been
> involved have such a phase. Usually it happens "offline" during
> general assemblies, but at least for debian they are online [1]. The
> actual examples from debian are for choosing the project leader and
> are way too long, but I'd definitively like to read a paragraph or two
> which vision each candidate has on OSGeo.
> 
> So here is my proposal:
> For next year:
> - Make something like a "campaining period" a part of the election.
> Give candidates an official time to explain their plans and have room
> for discussion afterwards. I actually think this would be a better
> place for "endorsements" than the nomination phase. Endorsing a
> candidate for his/her future plans based on his/her current
> achievement is imho a stronger signal than some of the endorsements we
> saw on the list before.
> 
> 
> For this year:
> - Even if there is no official period, I'd still love to see the
> vision/answers to the above questions from the candidates.
> 
> Johan
> 
> [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/
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