[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2015] Board of Directors elections results

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Thanks a lot Vasile for your hard work.

Best of luck to the new board members!

Best regards,
Bart

> On 30 Sep 2015, at 14:12, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Theses are the final results from the 2015 elections[1] for the open
> seats[2] of the OSGeo Board of Directors. There were *five* seats open
> and they have been filled by (alphabetical order):
> 
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the elections process. Overall voting participation was 88% (246 from 280):
> 
> - 246 complete votes;
> - 8 incomplete responses (the survey was open but not submitted);
> - 26 members did not open the survey at all.
> 
> There were no tie scores to arbitrate. Thank you to all who voted!
> 
> The complete resulting Board for 2015/2016 is presented bellow:
> 
> - Anita Graser
> - Helena Mitasova
> - Jody Garnett
> - Massimiliano Cannata
> - Michael Smith
> - Sanghee Shin
> - Vasile Craciunescu
> - Venkatesh Raghavan
> 
> With the election results published[3] the new Board of Directors[4]
> becomes effective as of now. According with the rule established last year, the detailed scores of each nominee will be published ASAP on our wiki.
> 
> Congratulations and please, dear members, welcome the new OSGeo directors!
> 
> We wish to thank the outgoing directors for their continued support of
> OSGeo and for helping to run a fantastic organization with a great
> membership and lots of energy. Anne, Jachym, Jorge, Gerald and Bart, thank you very much!
> 
> We thank all candidates who stood in this election and all OSGeo
> Charter Members for their contribution and votes. Nimalika and Dirk, thanks for stepping up, we are looking forward to work with you and the rest of the members to keep the foundation growing and improving.
> 
> My role as CRO is ending now. It was a privilege to work with you to further grow OSGeo. Personally, I would like to also thank Jorge for all his hard work put in the electronic voting system and to Jeff for his continuous support. In the following weeks I will get back to you and reopen two discussions:
> 
> - Election process for the following years (survey conclusions and analysis);
> - Mechanisms for assuring up to date charter members contact channels and retirement of inactive members (I will present some voting statistics for the last couple of years).
> 
> Best regards.
> Vasile
> CRO 2015
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2015
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2015
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2015_Results
> [4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors
> 
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