Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to OSGeo (at least the organisational part), but I'm a bit surprised by the board elections. I'm seeing two phases: a nomination phase and a voting phase. I double checked and last year it was the same. In my opinion we are missing the most important step: a "campaigning period". I'd like to know what each candidate would like to do, how they see the future of OSGeo,...
Now - don't get me wrong- we have (up to now) 7 excellent candidates for 5 positions, and probably many other charter members have done so much for the community that they deserve to be on the board. But as much as I would like to thank all of them, I would like to use different criteria for selecting board members.What are your vision and goals? Where should OSGeo head to? What about the financial situation? I'd like to know each candidate's vision before voting. Actually, all other volunteer run organisations where I've been involved have such a phase. Usually it happens "offline" during general assemblies, but at least for debian they are online [1]. The actual examples from debian are for choosing the project leader and are way too long, but I'd definitively like to read a paragraph or two which vision each candidate has on OSGeo. So here is my proposal: For next year: - Make something like a "campaining period" a part of the election. Give candidates an official time to explain their plans and have room for discussion afterwards. I actually think this would be a better place for "endorsements" than the nomination phase. Endorsing a candidate for his/her future plans based on his/her current achievement is imho a stronger signal than some of the endorsements we saw on the list before. For this year: - Even if there is no official period, I'd still love to see the vision/answers to the above questions from the candidates. Johan [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2013/platforms/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss