[Incubator] Rules for Incubation Committee Voting

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks for pointing that out Frank.

I have been holding motions open longer as this email list in order collect input from both weekday/weekend participants (part of transitioning from IRC meeting to email).
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Jody Garnett

On 02/10/2013, at 5:11 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> Landon,
> 
> I'd add that the material at:
> 
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Committee_Guidelines
> 
> would apply to the incubation committee when no local committee rules apply.
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Arnulf Christl
> <arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net> wrote:
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>> On 01.10.2013 16:49, Landon Blake wrote:
>>> I had some quick questions about the rules for Incubation Committee Voting:
>>> 
>>> 1) Are motions passed on a simple majority?
>>> 2) How many voting committee members are there?
>>> 3) Must a motion have a majority of yes votes from all committee members
>>> to pass, or just the majority of yes votes from collected responses on a
>>> motion?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Landon
>> 
>> Landon,
>> all good questions (some of which I just posted a few days ago too...).
>> 
>> 1) Are motions passed on a simple majority?
>> My current understanding is that we work with a veto system. This means
>> that any -1 vote stops a vote. Until all -1 have at least been amended
>> to a -0 there is not going ahead. The vote duration is therefore at
>> least a week (I woudl prefer two weeks, just to make sure everybody had
>> a chance to put in a veto). Additionally I would suggest we require at
>> least 50% +1, just so that it does not become a rubber stamping activity
>> and nobody bothers to look at what is being voted on.
>> 
>> Todo: We will have to write this down properly on the OSGeo Committee
>> page, then talk about it and approve it (with the current setting we
>> might even need board approval, not sure about this).
>> 
>> 2): 21, see list here:
>> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator
>> Todo: Clean up this list. I am pretty sure that the last roll call is
>> years old yo this list is probably not really up to reality.
>> 
>> 3) Should be answere by 1) - in case we decide this is a good way forward.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Arnulf
>> 
>> 
>> - --
>> Arnulf Christl (Director)
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