+1 for proposal And I will volunteer for a 1 year term Trish
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 10:31 am, Martin Tomko <[email protected]> wrote: > Same here, > > +1 for process, and volunteering for 1 year. > > M. > > > > *From: *Oceania <[email protected]> on behalf of adam steer > <[email protected]> > *Date: *Monday, 6 January 2020 at 12:58 pm > *To: *John Bryant <[email protected]> > *Cc: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [OSGeo Oceania] 2020 board directors: 1 & 2 year terms > > > > 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, <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania > > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania >
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