[OSGeo Oceania] 2020 board directors: 1 & 2 year terms

[adam steer]

Hey all

I am also happy to volunteer for one year.

+1 for John's process.

Cheers,


On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 12:02 pm John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi OSGeo Oceania board,
>
> Our Constitution says:
>
> *In order to implement staggered terms [...] half of the newly-elected
>> Directors will be appointed to a half term of one year. These Directors
>> will volunteer or be chosen by random selection.*
>>
>
> The purpose of this is to make sure that in future, annual board elections
> will only be for half the positions, to make sure there's continuity across
> years.
>
> By way of a process, I propose this:
>
>    1. Directors volunteer for 1 year terms (with 2 years being the
>    default).
>    2. If needed to re-balance, we draw straws
>    <https://www.dsrw.org/~dlg/web/straws.php> to ensure we have half for
>    each of 1 & 2 year terms. Since we have 9 directors this will be 4/5 or
>    5/4. We can draw straws at our board meeting this coming Thursday.
>
> For example:
>
>    - 2 directors volunteer for a 1 year term: draw 2 straws from the
>    remaining 7 directors, and the short straws take a 1 year term -> 5 @ 2
>    years, 4 @ 1 year
>    - 6 directors volunteer for a 1 year term: draw 1 straw from those 6
>    directors, and the short straw takes a 2 year term -> 4 @ 2 years, 5 @ 1
>    year
>
> Sound fair?
>
> I'm happy to volunteer for a 1 year term.
>
> Cheers
> John
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