A NO vote would be that you don't trust the person to uphold the
principles of OSGeo or think they would be terrible as a board member or
voting for a board member. There's all sort of possible reasons, perhaps
too much commercial interest, or not understanding FOSS well enough),
too new to the
Thanks for adding this to the Board agenda Eli (your draft text looks
good), I agree it makes sense to keep Charter Members aware of this,
even though it is unlikely to happen.
-jeff
On 2014-08-02 1:04 AM, Eli Adam wrote:
When I approach someone who I want to nominate for charter
Dear all Charter members,
this method of electing Charter members looks good to experiment with.
Yes No and Abstain..
I have seen quite a few mails supporting candidates. As a Charter member I go
by the recommendations, as it is impossible to really know each 'charter member
to be
Hi Jorge,
Thanks for your great work as CRO.
On 2014/07/31 16:14, Jorge Sanz wrote:
I have still a quite a big pile of nominations not confirmed[1]. Only
nominations confirmed before Saturday 2nd 00:00 (GMT) will be added to
the next phase so PLEASE, if your nominee has not responded to your
2014-08-01 15:23 GMT+02:00 Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp:
What is the voting for, I though all the nominated members would be
automatically
elected. Perhaps I am the only one not aware of the new election rules.
Can you clarify please.
Venka
Hi Venka, thanks for
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:
There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee
discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very
important excercise to be responsible on our vote on who will be
accepted.
Will the list of
2014-08-01 18:34 GMT+02:00 P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote:
There are more than 60 nominations, so checking every nominee
discussion will take a while for Charter Members, but it's a very
important excercise to be responsible on
Venka,
Further to Jorge's email, the reason we need to vote in charter members
(rather than accepting everyone who applies) is to meet OSGeo bylaws
which state that we need to vote in new charter members every year.
The reason for the bylaws is to avoid hostile take-over. Admittedly very
Indeed as I informed the Board privately last night, in another
non-profit software org there is a hostile take-over trying to
happen...so our bylaws on elections are very important.
But if Venka and other Charter members want changes in the bylaws it
should be made possible, and considered
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jeff McKenna
jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote:
Indeed as I informed the Board privately last night, in another non-profit
software org there is a hostile take-over trying to happen...so our bylaws
on elections are very important.
When I approach someone who I
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