<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">IMHO are common rule to avoid conflict of interest. Obviously it' really hard to avoid lobbying buying or nominating friends, common rule to reduce this are "one person, one vote", election rotation, etc.<div><br></div><div>"what extra would gain with this rule", that a nomination have to be recognized by a community, not strictly related to a company. I personally nominated or seconded many people I never met in my life, but I followed in their work or presentations during conferences or due their code contributions.... kind of web of thrust.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Luigi Pirelli<br><br>**************************************************************************************************<br>* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli</a><br>* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br>* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" target="_blank">https://github.com/luipir</a><br>* Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition:<br>* <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition" target="_blank">https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition</a><br>* Hire me: <a href="http://goo.gl/BYRQKg" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/BYRQKg</a><br>**************************************************************************************************</div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 09:49, Hans Gregers Hedegaard Petersen <<a href="mailto:gregers@septima.dk">gregers@septima.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I find the lack of faith in the current system disturbing. Since I do not understand what extra would gain with this rule, I would love if you could give a simple example on the type of situations you wish to solve with more elaborate rules? Could one not, in the current system, speak up against a nomination? What if it was not within a company, but say that I nominated all of my friends in the Danish geo society? Should we not forbid that?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Greg</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 10:08, María Arias de Reyna <<a href="mailto:delawen@gmail.com" target="_blank">delawen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I think that more than in the CoC, that should be on the member nomination. And yes, it makes sense. Can you propose a change on the membership procedure so the board can vote on this? We have some phrase about taking over OSGeo, maybe we can rephrase that.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Although it is also true that people I know better and I can nominate with more arguments are usually people I work with. Either if it is working on the community or in a company, that's just usually a coincidence. But if they are good enough, I can suggest external people to nominate them, sure.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:04 AM Luigi Pirelli <<a href="mailto:luipir@gmail.com" target="_blank">luipir@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I can't find a rule (in code of conduct) or election rules about charter member nomination... <div><br></div><div>I wouldn't like to see nomination of a member from another member belonging to the same company. It could be a mechanism to create lobbies.</div><div><br></div><div>any opinion?<br><div> <br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_7829614792608275907gmail-m_-8596786996686383902gmail-m_-1008619379407552349m_3881445040497321934gmail_signature">Luigi Pirelli<br><br>**************************************************************************************************<br>* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli</a><br>* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br>* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" target="_blank">https://github.com/luipir</a><br>* Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition:<br>* <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition" target="_blank">https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition</a><br>* Hire me: <a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