[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] About the selected election periods

[Marco Minghini]

+1 for Maxi's suggestion.

Marco

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2017-09-18 14:33 GMT+02:00 Marc Vloemans <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com>:

> Dear Maxi, Steven,
>
> I fully agree with your suggestions. Hope the role And responsabilities of
> charter members can be made more valuable to the organisation.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marc Vloemans
>
>
> Op 18 sep. 2017 om 14:23 heeft Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> Good suggestion Maxi, I agree
>
> We might also want to consider whether the Charter Members should have a
> significant role in the governance of OSGeo beyond electing the board and
> being some kind of backstop in the event of a “hostile takeover”
> ______
> Steven
>
>
> On 18 Sep 2017, at 13:17, Massimiliano Cannata <
> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> now that the official nomination period is concluded I would like to rise
> a question about the opportunity of having Charter member nomination just
> before of the Board Election with the intend of opening a discussion for
> the coming years.
>
> Personally I think that this is very inappropriate. I would propose to run
> the Charter member election only after the Board member election.
> Even if I'm sure that nobody did it, there is a risk of 'election' for the
> purpose of 'election'.
> e.g.: I could virtually nominate 20 people and likely expecting they will
> vote form me or second all the nominations to get the favor of new members.
>
> This is a potential flaws in the system from my point of view.
>
> Cheers,
> maxi
>
>
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