Election 2014

The 2014 OSGeo the Charter Members election will take place in July/August 2014, followed by the Board nominations and elections in August so that new board members have a chance to meet face-to-face at FOSS4G in Portland, USA in September.

Charter Member Election

As every year we are electing new Charter Members into the Foundation.

• See the official list of Charter Members as of 2013.
• Full details of the Membership Process.
• The New Member Nominations 2013 provide an illustration.
• The role of the Chief Returning Officer.

Revised selection process

In previous years the Charter Member selection process has been a little contentious. We typically receive numerous nominations from high caliber members of our community, and insufficient positions to accept them all. This typically results in unnecessary disappointment and dissent.

In response, the OSGeo board has agreed to trial tweaking the voting process. The aim is to automatically accept recognised OSGeo community leaders, while continuing with our existing process which attracts the many valuable community members who contribute in other ways. A week's provided for community comments.

Design guidelines:

• We want a process which is simple to understand and implement.
• We want a process which encourages recognised OSGeo community leaders to become OSGeo charter members, while continuing to accept members from the many other valuable OSGeo roles.
• We want a process which is difficult to abuse.
• For the first iteration, we should err on being more selective in our criteria, with potential widening of selection criteria in future years.

As a result the Board approved some changes on the Membership Process. One of the changes is that from now on, there are no arbitrary limit for the number of seats but a third of the total membership number. Thus, the number of seats available for 2014 elections is 60, from 181 current Charter Members.

Nominate new Charter Members: 2014-07-19 to 2014-08-01 (2 weeks)

• Please confirm with the nominated person first!
• Please email cro@osgeo.org with their name, contact email and paragraph describing why you are recommending this person as a Charter Member
• As per nominations process, the CRO will contact the nominated person and confirm his/her willing to participate and then forward the nomination to the Discuss mailing list for further discussion (see next point).
• The list of nominees will be compiled at: New Member Nominations 2014

Nominated Member Introductions

• During the period between a nomination and the start of the election, charter member nominees are encouraged to introduce themselves on the OSGeo discussion list (discuss@lists.osgeo.org). The nominee may optionally reference their OSGeo Advocate profile and create a profile if it doesn't exist.

Board Election

Nominate new Board Members - 2014-08-09 - 2014-08-22 (2 weeks)

• Please confirm with the person that they would like to stand for election as a Board member.
• Email a nomination, consisting of name, current country of residence and a paragraph describing why you think this person would make a good Board member, to cro@osgeo.org by 23:59 (your time zone) on Friday 22 August 2014
• Remember that only the Charter Members are eligible for a seat on the Board and voting but that anybody can nominate a board member.
• The final list will be collected at Board Member Nominations 2014

Vote for new Board Members - 2014-08-23 - 2014-08-29

• Only Charter Members are eligible to vote.
• Choose from Board Member Nominations 2014 list.
• Email cro@osgeo.org with a list of names up to 4 lines long (one vote per board slot).
• You can cast up to 4 votes, for 4 different people. Multiple votes for one person will be counted as one vote!
• Voting closes at 23:59 (your timezone) 29 August 2014.
• Results will be posted at Board Election 2014 Results on 2014-08-30.
• Contact cro@osgeo.org with questions.