Membership Process 2016

As posted by FW:

In Chicago it was resolved to add a second tranche of members as quickly as practical after the meeting, bringing our membership up to 45.

The process is:

1. Membership nominations will be accepted until 9am pacific time on Thursday February 16th. Nominations should be emailed to the chicago@osgeo.org email address. Each nomination should include the name of the nominated person, and up to one paragraph of explanation for why they are a good candidate.
2. Laura Rivera will collect the nominations, including the identity of the nominator into a document. If a person is nominated multiple times all the nominating text will be included (grouped together). This nomination summary will be distributed to the discuss@osgeo.org public list as a "call for votes" by 11:00am pacific time on Friday February 17th.
3. Votes will be submitted to Laura by email (at mailto:chicago@osgeo.org), and she will collect them until 11:00am pacific time on February 22nd. Only members may vote, and each member may vote give 10 votes for candidates for membership. All votes should be in one email from the member, and the member who is voting should be clearly identified.
4. Laura will tally votes by candidate and order them, submitting them to the board for final approval. In case of ties (very likely) the board will select from the tied group to complete the 24 candidates using whatever criteria it sees fit to use.
5. The new members will be announced to the list once approved by the board.