On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:41 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear all, > > The list of nominations for new OSGeo Charter Members is here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008 > > From today until the end of Friday 6th June 2008, votes for > 15 new Charter Members are being accepted at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a great list. Each one of those listed would be (well, already is) a great asset to the OSGeo cause and community. There are only 18 on that list, so that means 3 will be left out. My vote? Charter-ify all 18 of them. > > * Only Charter Members are eligible to vote! > * Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a list of names 15 lines > long (one vote per new member slot) > * Votes can be for 15 different people, or the same person > 15 times, or any balance in between. > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2008 has more links. > > Charter Members are responsible for electing the Board of the > OSGeo Foundation. The initial group of Charter Members was the 25 > people in the Free and Open Source Geospatial community who attended > the "startup" meeting of the Foundation in Chicago on 4th Feb. 2006 > > This group later selected another 20 Charter Members and they in turn > elected the first complete Board in the summer of 2006. In 2007 another > 15 Charter Members were elected to the Foundation (one stood down). > The current list is at http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members > > http://www.osgeo.org/membership explains why the Charter Membership > exists, basically as an attempt to guarantee the ongoing integrity > of the Board as representative of the community at large. > This is seen as more stable, and less liable to "hijack", than > granting a vote in exchange for payment (like the OpenStreetmap Foundation) > or in exchange for measurable contribution (like Wikimedia's Foundation) > > This year's nominations again, for those who read this far: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2008 > > > jo > -- > -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss