Board Election 2007 Process

The OSGeo Board of Directors is required to have more members added, making room for at least half of them to be replaced or at least stand for re-election along with new candidates. See Proposed Board Election Procedure for detailed steps. This page is for showing progress and status.

There are 3 phases to this years Board of Directors election, see following sections for more details:

1. Turnover of existing board: selecting 5 members from the Board to stand for re-election or, at their discretion, to step down completely. This is to make spaces available for new or re-elected candidates. The resulting Board will still be made up of 9 members - 4 existing plus 5 elected this year.
2. Nominations: Charter Members can nominate other Charter Members to be part of the election.
3. Voting: Charter Members will vote, choosing from the final list of nominees.

Turnover

5 members of the Board were randomly chosen to step down from the board following the close of the new election, but with the option of standing for re-election. This process makes 5 spaces available on the Board of Directors - to be filled through an upcoming election (see next section).

Stepping Down

1. Gary Lang
2. Mark Lucas

Mark and Gary do not expect to have as much time as they would like to commit to their board positions. They have declined to stand for re-election, so that their seats on the board can be made available to other, new, directors who will have more time to commit.

Running for Re-election

1. Markus Neteler
2. Venkatesh Raghavan
3. Jo Walsh

Markus, Venka and Jo will all stand for re-election into their board positions.

Nominations

The nomination period is now open, as described in the Proposed Board Election Procedure. Please review that page before nominating anyone.

• Existing Charter Members can now nominate other Charter Members for the Board of Director election.
• Nominees must be chosen from this list.
• Nominators must also be from that list.
• Nominations open today (11-July-07) and close at end of day-midnight UTC 19-July-07.
• Nominations must be sent to cro@osgeo.org - subject line: Board Nomination.
• You must supply a description/rationale for anyone you nominate - this will ensure that others are aware of their involvement/accomplishments and experience and can consider the same value you see in the individual. For example, list involvement so far in OSGeo, vision they have for promoting FOSS, management experience they would bring to the board, and other Positive Attributes.
• Nominees will be verified that they are willing to stand, Tyler will contact them if the nominator has not already done so. If you can verify with the candidate before sending in the nomination, it will help the process run faster.
• As nominees are confirmed, they will be added to this page, along with your rationale and the name of the nominators.
• After all nominees are confirmed, Tyler will notify Charter Members to start the voting.
• Voting is tentatively scheduled to start 23-July-07 and to run for 10 days.

Unconfirmed

• Jeroen Ticheler

Lorenzo Becchi: Jeroen is the leader of GeoNetwork project, a catalogue application that's member of OSGeo. Since long, Jeroen has been active in FOSS4G and he's a key person to support OSGeo projects inside United Nations (he's working at FAO) and other institutions such as OGC.

Confirmed

• Venkatesh Raghavan
• Jo Walsh
• Markus Neteler

Lorenzo Becchi: Markus is a very present person over many FOSS4G communities from OSGeo to Germany passing through Italy. He's one of the faces that OSGeo can proudly show everywhere. More from here: Markus is the leader of the GRASS GIS project, and has played a pivotal role in the revitalization of the project and it's community. Markus is also a founding member of OSGeo and has been active in building the broader FOSS4G community for many years. At the FOSS4G 2006 conference, Markus Neteler was honored with the Sol Katz GFOSS Award for 2006.

• Robert (Bob) Bray

Frank W: Bob brings a voice for two OSGeo projects, MapGuide OS and FDO, for which he leads the project steering committees. He also represents the the support of Autodesk, our earliest and most substantial corporate sponsor. But more importantly he is a voice for the *joy* of open source, and the transformative power it can have in a corporate, and previously proprietary environment. I would love to have his energy and intellect with us on the board.

• Michael Gerlek

Frank W: Michael has shown passion for the OSGeo cause since our inception and has worked very hard in the past on VisCom activities - addressing issues from the esoteric (membership rules) to the concrete (OSGeo shirt guy). Based on his background, I think he can help us promote and position FOSS4G software for use in the pre-packaged commercial software world. But most importantly I think he has passion, and is prepared to commit the time to fulfill a role on the OSGeo board.

Declined

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