[Incubator] [Board] Incubation <s>nightmare</s> question

[Jody Garnett]

What we have is a failure of the chair (i.e. me) to "exercise some
discretion" and consider the motion passed. Given the lack of participation
I did not feel I had the go ahead from the committee.

The osgeo committee guidelines are focused around an IRC meeting format
(referring to the majority of those present). With respect to an email vote
we reached 1/3 of committee responding (not a majority). The other model we
have is that of the board (where all members vote).

Still it is nice to read that page and see it up to me as chair to move
things along.
--
Jody

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Jody Garnett

On 27 January 2015 at 19:21, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-01-27 6:20 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
>> That is correct. Incubation is a subcommittee, when a project is ready
>> to enter incubation (or graduate) we place an agenda item on the next
>> board meeting.
>>
>> In this case Arnulf made a motion, which was not accepted due to lack of
>> response from incubation committee members.
>>
>>
> Hi Jody,
>
> In the following email [1], you summarized the votes and it seems that we
> have eight +1 votes in favor of istSOS entering incubation, is this not
> enough to declare this motion passed and move this to the board, etc? If
> not then how many do we need?
>
> Daniel
>
> P.S. According to [2], in the absence of other local rules, then the
> default rule for OSGeo committees described in the Committee_Guidelines doc
> [3] applies: "... at least two +1's, and no -1 vetos..." and "If a motion
> isn't getting +1's from the majority of those present and voting perhaps it
> requires further discussion.". Since the Incubation committee is larger we
> could say that a minimum of two +1's is low and define a higher threshold,
> but in the case of the istSOS motion we have eight +1 and all those who
> voted were positive so that should be considered reasonable support, no?
>
>
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2015-January/002574.html
> [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2013-October/002290.html
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Committee_Guidelines
>
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