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''This document refers to the first extension of membership in early 2006. See [[Potential Nominees for Next Membership Election]] for new proposed members.''
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''See [[Potential Nominees for Next Membership Election]] for new proposed members.''
  
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The process is:
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= General Process =
  
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# 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.
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Each year fifteen charter members are nominated and elected by the OSGeo charter members.  
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# 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@mail.osgeo.org public list as a "call for votes" by 11:00am pacific time on Friday February 17th.
 
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# 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 27th. 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.
 
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# 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.
 
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# The new members will be announced to the list once approved by the board.
 
  
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== Call For Nominations Email ==
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== Chief Returning Officer ==
  
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''  Posted to 'Freegis-list': OSGeo: Formal Call For Nominations''<br>
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The CRO should be a charter member.  The CRO is responsible for administering the charter member and board member elections for the year they are CRO.  The CRO is selected by the board.
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''  Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com''<br>
 
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''  Mon Feb 13 20:39:06 CET 2006''<br>
 
  
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In Chicago on February 4th, a group of folks met to discuss formation
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== Nominations ==
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of a foundation to support and promote the use of open source software
 
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in geospatial applications.  The meeting was a great success, and the
 
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) was born.
 
  
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  http://www.osgeo.org/
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# The nominations period should be roughly 1 week, and should be announced by the CRO on the OSGeo announce and discuss lists.
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# Nominations for charter membership should be sent to the CRO (at cro@osgeo.org).
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# Anyone who is not already a charter member is a potential nominee.
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# The CRO should verify with the nominee that they are willing to stand for the election.  This should include an explanation of charter memership responsibilities.  Once confirmed, the CRO should forward the nomination to the OSGeo discuss list.  No seconder is required.
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# All OSGeo members (members as well as charter members) are encouraged to discuss candidates on the discuss list.
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# The nomination period should be approximately 1 week long.
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# Once all the nominations close, a summary of charter candidates will be prepared and posted by the CRO to the OSGeo discuss list.
  
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The physical attendies are the first members of the foundation.  At
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== Voting ==
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the founding meeting it was resolved to add a second tranche of members
 
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as quickly as practical after the meeting, bringing our membership up
 
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to 45, in order to broaden representation and give other interested a
 
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chance to be most directly involved.  This email is the formal call for
 
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nominations.
 
  
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Nominations should be emailed to Chicago at osgeo.org and should include
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# Voting occurs roughly one week after nominations close.
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a paragraph describing the qualifications of each nominated candidate.
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# The CRO should ensure that all charter members receive the voting announcement - the OSGeo Secretary can provide a charter member list with contact info.
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# Each charter member will have 15 votes.
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# All votes will be sent to cro@osgeo.org, which is archived and forwarded to the CRO for counting.
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# Charter members may apply all their votes to a single person or distribute them in integral amounts over multiple candidates.
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# The voting period is roughly 1 week long.
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# Once complete the CRO tallies votes and the 15 new charter membership are assigned to the candidates with the most votes.
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# In case of a vote tie, the CRO will use some suitable random method to select from the tied candidates to fill the new positions.
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# The CRO will announce the selected charter members on discuss@lists.osgeo.org.  
  
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All nominations should be in by 9:00am (Pacific time - GMT+8) on Thursday
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= Charter Membership Criteria =
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February 16th.  After that they will be collected and the existing
 
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membership will vote to select 24 new members from the nominations.
 
  
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Please verify with any nominee that they are willing to stand for
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Previously suggested (but unofficial) membership selection criteria include:
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membership before nominating them.
 
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Nominations already sent to chicago at osgeo.org will also be incorporated.
 
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Note that you do not need to be an existing member to nominate someone,
 
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and self-nomination is fine.
 
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Previously suggested (but unofficial) membership selection criteria
 
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include:
 
  
 
* The person should have made a contribution to open source geospatial software already.
 
* The person should have made a contribution to open source geospatial software already.

Revision as of 20:58, 27 February 2007

See Potential Nominees for Next Membership Election for new proposed members.

General Process

Each year fifteen charter members are nominated and elected by the OSGeo charter members.

Chief Returning Officer

The CRO should be a charter member. The CRO is responsible for administering the charter member and board member elections for the year they are CRO. The CRO is selected by the board.

Nominations

  1. The nominations period should be roughly 1 week, and should be announced by the CRO on the OSGeo announce and discuss lists.
  2. Nominations for charter membership should be sent to the CRO (at cro@osgeo.org).
  3. Anyone who is not already a charter member is a potential nominee.
  4. The CRO should verify with the nominee that they are willing to stand for the election. This should include an explanation of charter memership responsibilities. Once confirmed, the CRO should forward the nomination to the OSGeo discuss list. No seconder is required.
  5. All OSGeo members (members as well as charter members) are encouraged to discuss candidates on the discuss list.
  6. The nomination period should be approximately 1 week long.
  7. Once all the nominations close, a summary of charter candidates will be prepared and posted by the CRO to the OSGeo discuss list.

Voting

  1. Voting occurs roughly one week after nominations close.
  2. The CRO should ensure that all charter members receive the voting announcement - the OSGeo Secretary can provide a charter member list with contact info.
  3. Each charter member will have 15 votes.
  4. All votes will be sent to cro@osgeo.org, which is archived and forwarded to the CRO for counting.
  5. Charter members may apply all their votes to a single person or distribute them in integral amounts over multiple candidates.
  6. The voting period is roughly 1 week long.
  7. Once complete the CRO tallies votes and the 15 new charter membership are assigned to the candidates with the most votes.
  8. In case of a vote tie, the CRO will use some suitable random method to select from the tied candidates to fill the new positions.
  9. The CRO will announce the selected charter members on discuss@lists.osgeo.org.

Charter Membership Criteria

Previously suggested (but unofficial) membership selection criteria include:

  • The person should have made a contribution to open source geospatial software already.
  • The person should be willing to put in time and effort on the foundation, perhaps joining committee(s), or volunteering in some other way that gets the foundation going.
  • Members should believe in the general goals of the foundation. To support and promote the use of open source geospatial software in a collaborative manner (my words).
  • Members selected should provide a diversity of geographic representation in the foundation.
  • Members selected should provide representation of a diversity of projects. For instance, we have a strong desire to see the "java tribe" well represented in the foundation. We don't want the membership dominated by folks from just one project.
  • Members selected should provide representation of a diversity of interests (eg. corporate, hobbyist, educational, scientific).
  • Members should be prepared to works constructively and positively towards the goals of the foundation. Good teamwork skills are an asset.
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