[OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Charter-members] 2020 OSGeo Board of Directors election results

[Andrew Jeffrey]

Hi Alex,

Wow - I missed that in the AGM recording... I wonder if this is a hangover
of the initial excitement of the OO org getting off the ground, in that
people were signing up for a membership without understanding the
requirements of having to vote in the elections?

I think you mentioned in a previous email that the membership clause states
something along the lines of members who do not participate in two
consecutive elections are deemed to be inactive and are removed from the
membership register. Maybe now that we have had two elections, that process
will kick in and improve the completion rate by removing inactive members?
Because I would hope that more than 40% of the membership is active.

For what it is worth I thought the communication for this election was
good, but maybe I just happened to be on the right channels. I do have two
suggestions for increasing voter turnout, and a caveat here is I'm not sure
how practical these are:

1. A gentle reminder to those who did not vote that the membership comes
with some expectations and one of those is that they participate in the
OSGeo Oceania elections.
2. I'm not sure if MailChimp can do this maybe next year we could send an
appointment or calendar invite with a link to the voting page, thus
creating a mechanism in people own calendars to be reminded?

Thanks
Andrew


On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:51 AM Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forwarding because we talked about the voter turnout at our AGM.
>
> OSGeo has 64% participation, compared to our ~40%.
>
> Any ideas on how we can increase this?
>
> One difference is that to become a charter member of OSGeo, you need to be
> recommended, so more 'exclusive'!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr at osgeopt.pt>
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:11
> Subject: [Charter-members] 2020 OSGeo Board of Directors election results
> To: OSGeo Charter members <charter-members at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo Chief Returning Officer <
> cro at osgeo.org>
>
>
> Dear OSGeo members and friends,
>
> Thanks to all candidates for going through the election process and
> thank you all for your participation in this election.
>
> These are the results from the 2020 elections for the 4 open seats on
> the OSGeo Board of Directors.
>
> The results in alphabetical order are:
>
> * Angelos Tzotsos
> * Michael Smith
> * Michele Tobias
> * Tom Kralidis
>
> Election figures are:
>
> * 306 votes out of 482
> * 63% participation
>
> All candidates received a large number of votes recognizing their
> engaged in our community.
>
> Detailed number of votes for each candidate were published on the OSGeo
> wiki [1].
>
> Jorge Gustavo Rocha and Anne Ghisla
> (your 2020 OSGeo Elections CROs)
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2020_Results
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