OSGeo board,
In the interests of making a decision such that Jorge Salinas (our CRO)
can move forward, I propose the following process be followed for voting
new charter members in 2014:
1. Charter member to nominate potential new charter member(s) (as before).
2. Charter members then vote (in/out) nominated charter members. This
will be different to prior years, as we previously voted in a fixed
number of members for a larger selection pool. (eg vote in 20 people
from a list of 30). For this year, I propose we have a "Yes/No" vote.
Ie, if we have a list of 30 candidates, we will ask all charter members
to vote Yes or No against each candidate. Each candidate with greater
than 50% of YES votes will be included as new charter members.
3. Charter members would be guided to select candidates who fit the
"Positive Attributes for Charter Members" as defined here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes
4. There will be no limit to the number of new charter members who can
be selected. This will require an update of
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
5. Note: This vote is being put to the board and not to charter members
as I don't wish to complicate this decision by adding a 2nd (positive)
idea for change. We can address getting charter members to vote on
issues as a separate motion.
Board members, can you please all vote on above:
+1 Cameron
On 25/06/2014 9:31 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Following the community discussion, I further researched OSGeo's
foundation documents, (in retrospect I should have done this earlier).
Of particular relevance to current discussion is our ByLaws:
http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/incorporation/bylaws.html
/Section 7.1. Admission of [Charter] Members. An initial group of up
to forty-five (45) persons shall be admitted as the initial [charter]
members of the corporation upon the affirmative vote of the Board of
Directors of the corporation. Thereafter, to be eligible for [charter]
membership, a person must be nominated by an existing [charter] member
of the corporation pursuant to a written document in such form as
shall be adopted by the Board of Directors from time to time. The
nomination must be included in a notice to the [charter] members at
least ten (10) days in advance of the meeting at which the [charter]
members will vote on the applicant's admission. Proposed [charter]
members shall be admitted upon the affirmative vote of the members of
the corporation./
This section implies that the proposal below of automatically
accepting "Recognised OSGeo Community Leaders" is unconstitutional, as
charter members need to be voted into the role by existing charter
members.
It also implies that while a separate paid membership category could
be created, paid members would still need to be voted into a charter
member role by existing charter members.
The ByLaws don't mention limiting the number of new charter members.
This criteria seems to have been introduced as a Membership Process by
the 26th Board meeting:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process
/The number of new members will be between 10% and one third of the
existing charter membership count as decided by the board/.
Such a statement created by the board, could be updated by the board,
and as such the board could agree to accept an unlimited number of new
charter members.
So I'm now thinking that our election process can be simplified to:
1. Charter member to nominate potential new charter member(s)
2. Charter members then vote (in/out) against all nominated charter
members
A suitable criteria for determining whether a nominee qualifies is
listed here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes
4. Nominees with a majority of votes are included as new Charter Members
On 15/06/2014 9:52 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Within 2 weeks we intend to start our annual process for selecting
new OSGeo charter members.
In previous years the Charter Member selection process has been a
little contentious. We typically receive numerous nominations from
high caliber members of our community, and insufficient positions to
accept them all. This typically results in unnecessary disappointment
and dissent.
In response, the OSGeo board has agreed to trial tweaking the voting
process. The aim is to automatically accept recognised OSGeo
community leaders, while continuing with our existing process which
attracts the many valuable community members who contribute in other
ways. Community comments are encouraged, and will be considered over
the next week.
*Design guidelines:*
* We want a process which is simple to understand and implement.
* We want a process which encourages recognised OSGeo community
leaders to become OSGeo charter members, while continuing to accept
members from the many other valuable OSGeo roles.
* We want a process which is difficult to abuse.
* For the first iteration, we should err on being more selective in
our criteria, with potential widening of selection criteria in future
years.
*Recognised OSGeo Community Leaders**
*
OSGeo aims to provide OSGeo Charter Membership to all recognised
OSGeo community leaders who are nominated. Hopefully, sufficient
positions are available. If there are more candidates than available,
then membership will be allocated to the first to be nominated.
Remaining nominees will be automatically offered to go through the
standard voting process.
Recognised OSGeo Community Leaders are defined as people who have
been *voted* into a position of authority within official OSGeo
projects and committees, where the voting community includes at least
3 OSGeo charter members.
Acceptable roles are currently limited to:
* Project Steering Committee member of a Graduated OSGeo Project
* Chair of Official Local Chapter
* Chair of an OSGeo committee
The application process for recognised OSGeo Community Leaders is the
same as for other nominees.
Full text of our processes are at:
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process_2014
* http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014
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Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
P +61 2 9009 5000, Wwww.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099
--
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
P +61 2 9009 5000, Wwww.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099
--
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099
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