[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

[Jachym Cepicky]

Vasile, what is the subject of the mail I should recieve?

THanks

J

st 18. 10. 2017 v 19:15 odesílatel Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> napsal:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:42 AM, Vasile Craciunescu
> <vasile at geo-spatial.org> 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
>
> Probably leave it until next year, but [1] is in error; it does not
> need to be for *different* people.  The bylaws
> http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html [2]
> provide:
>
> Section 8.9. Voting. Each member (except emeritus members) shall be
> entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting
> of the members, except in the case of election of directors or as may
> otherwise be provided in the General Corporation Law of the State of
> Delaware. If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority
> of the members represented at the meeting and entitled to vote on the
> subject matter shall be the act of the members, unless the vote of a
> greater number is required by the General Corporation Law of the State
> of Delaware or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws.
>
> In connection with the election of Directors, each member (except
> emeritus members) shall be entitled to one vote for each vacancy on
> the Board of Directors to be filled. Members of the Board of Directors
> shall be elected by the affirmative vote of a plurality of the votes
> of the members present in person or proxy, including through remote
> communication, at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of
> the Board of Directors. Each member entitled to vote in an election of
> Directors may cumulate his or her votes by distributing among one or
> more candidates as many votes as are equal to the number of Director
> vacancies to be filled in the election.
>
> Andy also raised some good ideas.  Perhaps we need to review this further.
>
>
> Best regards, Eli
>
>
> > 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
>
> [2] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
>
> >
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
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