[OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

[Michael Smith]

Jachym,

It should be "Invitation to participate in the OSGeo Board of Directors
elections 2017"

Mike

Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
Treasurer at osgeo.org


From:  Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jachym Cepicky
<jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
Date:  Thursday, October 19, 2017 at 3:39 AM
To:  <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us>, Vasile Craciunescu <vasile at geo-spatial.org>
Cc:  OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject:  Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections time

> 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
>>>> >> _______________________________________________
>>>> >> Discuss mailing list
>>>> >> Discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
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