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

[Alex Leith]

+1

And I volunteer for a one year term


On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 3:16 am, Trisha Moriarty <moriar1y at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for proposal
> And I will volunteer for a 1 year term
>
> Trish
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 10:31 am, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Same here,
>>
>> +1 for process, and volunteering for 1 year.
>>
>> M.
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>> *From: *Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of adam
>> steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Monday, 6 January 2020 at 12:58 pm
>> *To: *John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *"Oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <Oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo Oceania] 2020 board directors: 1 & 2 year terms
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey all
>>
>>
>>
>> I am also happy to volunteer for one year.
>>
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>> +1 for John's process.
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>> Cheers,
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, 12:02 pm John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi OSGeo Oceania board,
>>
>>
>>
>> Our Constitution says:
>>
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>> *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.
>>
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>> 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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