[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

[Vasile Craciunescu]

The change was to lower the minimum number of votes to 1. Sorry for not 
including the information in previous message.

-Vasile
CRO 2017

On 10/18/17 1:42 PM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Based on the feedback received from two of our members (thank you 
> Dimitris and Gert-Jan), I did a small change in the voting system. The 
> change is on the number of votes than one can cast. The initial system 
> was maximum 5, minimum 5, which does not make sense if you want to 
> abstain on more than 5 nominations (the rule was inherit from the survey 
> template used last year). Also, according to our process rules  "You can 
> cast up to 5 votes, for 5 different people." [1]. Now, before making 
> this change, 35 people already voted. The votes are anonymized but I can 
> go through Limesurvey setting to check if is possible to reset someone 
> votes. Please let me know on cro at osgeo.org if you already voted and you 
> were unhappy with the fact that the system forced you to cast 5 votes.
> 
> Best,
> Vasile
> CRO 2017
> 
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2017
> 
> On 10/18/17 11:57 AM, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>> Dear charter members,
>>
>> It's time to vote for our new members of the board of directors. Like 
>> in the previous years, an electronic voting system was setup. In 
>> minutes from now, emails with personal voting links will be sent to 
>> all our charter members. If you don't receive your voting link in the 
>> next couple of hours please let me know at cro at osgeo.org. Before doing 
>> that please also check your "Spam" folder. Sending hundreds of 
>> messages at once is not easy and it can be interpreted as spam by some 
>> of the filtering systems. Also, sometimes the e-mail addresses change 
>> but the charter member contact database is not up to date. I will try 
>> to contact all the members with bounced invitations via alternative 
>> email/twitter/linkedin/etc to update the email account and to make 
>> sure that are able to vote.
>>
>> Thank you for supporting OSGeo!
>>
>> Best,
>> Vasile
>> CRO 2017
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