[Incubator] motion: accept osgeo-live incubation application

Landon Blake sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 14:30:47 PDT 2017 

+1 from me.

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Julien Moquet <moquet.julien at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jody (and all),
>
> As you mention the motion is not quite passed yet, I want to add my
> community support to this vote.
>
> +1
>
> Regards,
> Julien.
>
>
> 2017-11-04 19:44 GMT+01:00 Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>:
>
>> ​Jody,
>> Permission was granted on the mail text. I reiterate that permission.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Vicky, motion is not quite passed yet (waiting on 100% response
>>> for the electronic voting).
>>>
>>> I note that the board-priv at osgeo.org list is available if you have any
>>> questions you would like to raise privately.
>>>
>>> You can see a couple of approaches in play here:
>>> - Earlier on the incubation thread I asked the incubation committee to
>>> consider my early involvement with OSGeo live and if it would be a
>>> hindrance to acting as mentor.
>>> - During MOT1 voting I responded with +1, noting my role as incubation
>>> chair
>>> - During MOT1 voting you can see Angelos abstain with a +0 vote, noting
>>> his role as PSC chair
>>>
>>> The board has addressed these kind of tensions previously, asking
>>> directors to acknowledge if they are affected by the matter at hand - but
>>> still vote in a responsible fashion as a director of OSGeo. This issue
>>> comes up a lot for directors, because they are part of OSGeo and are
>>> affected by most decisions.
>>>
>>> With your permission I would like to pass your question and the above
>>> answer to the board email list. I try not to cross post since that leads to
>>> madness.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 3 November 2017 at 10:19, Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all
>>>>
>>>> As member of the PSC of OSGeo-Live, I am glad to read that the motion
>>>> of considering OSGeo-Live for incubation has passed.
>>>>
>>>> I am concerned because the the incubator committee has a member that
>>>> has a conflict of interest because is also a member of the PSC of
>>>> OSGeo-Live project, and he voted +1.
>>>> I expressed my concern in the "Juez y Parte" thread of [1], where is
>>>> "clear" that there is no guideline of the action to be taken on a committee
>>>> member when there is a conflict of interest. (the thread has a link to the
>>>> incubator committee guidelines [2])
>>>> I must say that, at least, the committee member with the conflict of
>>>> interest, mentioned his involvement when voting, but he didn't step down
>>>> from the committee, or voted in such a way that his vote would not
>>>> influence the over all result like a (+0)
>>>>
>>>> So, The next step is for the board for approval.
>>>> And my concern grows thinking on how the board with two board members
>>>> also on the PSC of OSGeo-Live, so more conflict of interest.
>>>>
>>>> I was doubtful of which was the correct mailing list to make this post.
>>>> (Here or Discuss) but having Jody as part of Board, I leave the decision to
>>>> him if this new concern of mine "Juez y Parte" but for board making
>>>> decision on projects they belong to.
>>>>
>>>> I want things made done right. Our project application, as far as I can
>>>> see, can  be used to make more precise written rules/policies about
>>>> conflicts of interest.
>>>> But what I would not want is someone else in the future, to notice and
>>>> make a big fuss/attack of "how bad X person acted when having a conflict of
>>>> interest".
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if there is a guideline equivalent to the incubator committee
>>>> guideline but for board.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Vicky
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2017-October/003
>>>> 394.html​
>>>> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Committee_Guidelines
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 12:58 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The motion has now passed:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Accept the OSGeo-Live incubation application
>>>>> <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2002>, with Jody Garnett acting
>>>>> as mentor.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the following support:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Bruce Bannerman +1
>>>>>    - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques +1
>>>>>    - Landon Blake
>>>>>    - Howard Butler
>>>>>    - Arnulf Christl
>>>>>    - Jody Garnett +1 initial motion
>>>>>    - Dimitris Kotzinos +0 (question between project / initiative )
>>>>>    - Tom Kralidis +1
>>>>>    - Julien-Samuel Lacroix +1
>>>>>    - Mark Lucas
>>>>>    - Steve Lime +1
>>>>>    - Daniel Morissette +1
>>>>>    - Markus Schneider
>>>>>    - Cameron Shorter +1
>>>>>    - Norman Vine
>>>>>    - Frank Warmerdam
>>>>>
>>>>> Community support:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - pending
>>>>>
>>>>> Welcome to the incubation program OSGeo-Live, I will take an action
>>>>> item to the next board meeting for approval.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Vicky Vergara
>>>> Operations Research
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>> Vicky Vergara
>> Operations Research
>>
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