Good point - I should have caught this in the '[Talk-us] Feburary 4th Minutes and Election Update' email. Too many fricking emails.
I'm cool that kate is also overseeing Good luck all! On Feb 15, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for the interest in the US Local Chapter and expressing your > concern about the elections. Let me see if I can address your concerns > in this mail. > > The working group that is working to create the United States local > chapter has made a lot of progress, but to go any further, it needs to > incorporate as a legal entity. Doing that requires a board of > directors. The working group (the group that meets on the call) > decided that the most fair way to do this was to hold an informal > election. It's an informal election because there aren't any true > members yet, so the criteria by which someone was able to vote had to > be chosen. It's also not a secret ballot. SurveyMonkey was chosen > because it served our needs. > > Originally, Kate, who was leading the calls, was going to run the > election, but since she's been unavailable for the last month (due to > the crisis in Haiti), I've been running the calls, acting as > secretary, and running the election. Kate is also overseeing the > election, which is why all nominees had to contact both myself and > Kate, and Kate will oversee the results on SurveyMonkey along with me. > > Circling back, we've discussed the voting procedure on the calls. It's > been a major area for discussion: ensuring that the new organization > is created in a way that's fair and transparent. We've discussed > voting mechanisms, schemes, the length of time we'd give people to > vote, etc. Each issue was discussed until there was unanimous consent > in how we'd proceed. If even one person had any question, or > objection- we didn't move forward. > > In addition to discussions within the working group, we've announced > the election process on the talk-us list several times, and I've been > sending out regular notifications about the election process for the > last several weeks in order to let folks know where the working group > was at, what it was planning, and to solicit feedback from the larger > community. We've also been increasing the amount of communication the > working group has had with the larger community in order to try to > bring more parties onto the call. > > This is the election process that's been selected for this first > board. Once there is an actual organization, it will open up > membership and a board can be elected by the members. > > We've done our best to make the process as fair and as transparent as > we could. Again, Kate is overseeing the election along with me. That > reduces the chances that one of us could taint the election. > > If that doesn't satisfy your concerns, the other option available to > us would be to release the votes once they're collected. I don't know > how I feel about this. On the one hand, it increases transparency (and > people could do their own tallies), but on the other, someone may not > want their votes out for all to see. This issue would need to be > discussed during the next working group call, this Thursday at 8pm > EST/5pm PST. > > Lastly, I want to re-emphasize that this election is for the board > that will serve temporarily, and that there will be a true election > later this year. > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
