Hi! FWIW, I support Arnulf's proposal to accept all the 37 nominees as charter members. I don't see the need to disappoint 7 willing valid people who have received a nomination and support from the community.
Thanks Arnulf for the hard work Cheers madi On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <se...@arnulf.us>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > All, > this is a minor correction, we actually have 37 potential new members! > > Sorry for this mistake. > > Best regards, > Arnulf > > On 24.07.2013 10:55, Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote: > > Board, the nomination for new Charter Members has ended. We have 35 > > nominees, please find all the details here: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2013 > > > > As per board motion from 2013-07-11 [1] we limit the influx of new > > member to 30. This (arbitrary) decision was taken because 30 is a > > nice compromise between 10% and one third of the number of the > > existing membership (14 and 48 new members) which are the limits as > > per our bylaws. > > > > I propose to not have a (s)election and accept all nominees into > > Charter membership. I can see no reason that would justify > > excluding anybody from this great list of nominees and we are still > > well in scope of our bylaws. If you firmly believe that an election > > is crucial to our mission and goal I will duly follow your advice > > and start the elections tomorrow (2013-07-25). I am sorry that this > > is a very short notice to change something so important. > > > > I suggest that one of you starts a motion stating something along > > the lines of: "I motion to accept all 35 nominees into Charter > > Membership and override the decision taken in the last board > > meeting." > > > > > > Ideally we will be able to get +1 votes from all board members > > asap. In case of strong objection please answer with a veto (-1) > > immediately in which case I will take a deep breath, sigh and > > continue with the elections. > > > > > > Best regards, Arnulf > > > > _______________________________________________ Board mailing list > > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board > > > > - -- > Exploring Space, Time and Mind > http://arnulf.us > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlHvlz0ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2LaQCcCRNNXFDvU+iz4wW8yyWSaI3h > Mw8An3IP/30k5jdIYZA3WifmoqT069x6 > =JqF+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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