Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-24 Thread Ravi Kumar
I voted for a motion (2009) that limits a charter members vote to a Board nominee only once (not more that 1 even if voted more than once). I was in the board on that day (IRC) when a motion was proposed. Remember that some were reluctant to change the existing pattern where in a charter member

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-24 Thread Stefano Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto: > > But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy > member competing for the board. At the same time it might be rude > not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce the > chance

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-24 Thread maning sambale
I support this proposal. We are already doing this for the Charter Membership election [0]. [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process#Voting On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Stefano Costa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/2012 06:50 PM, Stefano Costa wrote: > Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto: > >> But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy >> member competing for the board. At the same time it might be >> rude not voting to any ot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 12-07-25 10:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > > Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick > with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. > But I will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting > so that we don't wake up late for the nex

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that we don't wake up late for the next electio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
gt; To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting > > On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > > > > Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with > > what we have though, probably a little late to in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:20:58 -0300 Jeff McKenna wrote: > On 12-07-25 10:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: > > > > Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick > > with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. > > But I will add the whole elections topic to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 25 July 2012 15:05, Daniel Morissette wrote: > On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: >> >> Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with >> what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I >> will add the whole elections topic to the next boar

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread H.S.Rai
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:40 AM, maning sambale wrote: > I support this proposal. We are already doing this for the Charter > Membership election [0]. +1 Uniform election process for all posts is needed. -- H.S.Rai > [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process#Voting __

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
On 07/25/2012 04:08 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/2012 06:50 PM, Stefano Costa wrote: Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto: But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy member competing for the board. At the same ti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

2012-07-25 Thread Even Rouault
Hi, > I also agree with Arnulf that we need to change this for the next election. I also think that changing rules so close before the election period is not appropriate (imagine how people would call a governmenent that would do that before an election !) There are pros and cons in every elec