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

[Martin Tomko]

One more comment – we could see how many people that registered used “company” emails.
If people change jobs, these may become not available, or at least not checked ( and you do not get a bounce email, sometimes).

Second, this is not a year to draw conclusion based on. People simply have no energy for most things, and if there was no conference, they may not have felt involved. We did not remind them that if they do not vote 2 years in a row they may become inactive…

So I would not be too harsh on ourselves. I also perceive the mothership OSGeo differently to our local org. They are for me not primarily the community organising body ( = conference), but the one that coordinates and maintains the lives of the member software projects. Hence, there is a different level of activity and expectations, that do not get perceived as “dormant” in a year without a conference. Arguably, we do not have this second leg to stand on in OO.

Martin

From: Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 3:28 pm
To: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
Cc: OSgeo - Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Charter-members] 2020 OSGeo Board of Directors election results
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<mailto: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'!
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:11
Subject: [Charter-members] 2020 OSGeo Board of Directors election results
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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<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2020_Results>
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