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Selecting President and Vice-Presidents

Maria Antonia Brovelli Fri 21 Oct 2016 11:21PMPublicSeen by 333

It looks like the term for the President and Vice Presidents has elapsed, and this meeting on Oct 20th was the intended time to choose new officers....

The most recent board meeting of October 20th had the following discussion:

14:26:06 venka: Agenda 6: Selecting OSGeo Vice-President
14:26:55 helena_: it would be good to have somebody with industry contacts for the second vice-president
14:26:56 vcraciunescu: this should also be postponed for a meeting when all board members will attend
14:27:06 kalxas: vcraciunescu, +1
14:27:09 maria: +1
14:27:11 helena_: yes, I think it would be good to have Jody
14:27:16 venka: I suggest we start a thread on loomio and select our new VP

Resulting in this thread being created by Maria:

I want to nominate as vice-president Angelos. In my opinion we need a person in Europe and Angelos has a wide experience in many OSGeo projects, from the Live-DVD to single packages.

VenkaFri 21 Oct 2016 11:43PM

I second this nomination.

Vasile CrăciunescuSat 22 Oct 2016 6:43AM

I also second Angelos nomination.

Anita GraserSat 22 Oct 2016 10:24AM

Let's give it a few more hours to see if there will be another nomination. Afterwards I suggest we start the motion.

Selecting Angelos as the new OSGeo Vice-President

proposal by Venka Closed Tue 1 Nov 2016 11:19PM

Outcome
by Anita Graser Tue 25 Apr 2017 5:52AM

This topic has been moved on the agenda of the next meeting.

This proposal is for selecting the new Vice-President to fill the vacant position.
Details about nomination at
https://www.loomio.org/d/jWiY2zLA/vice-president

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Jody GarnettTue 25 Oct 2016 12:25AM

So we got a chicken and egg situation here with a discussion (about replacing our current vice-presidents) with nominations of a replacement.

Jody GarnettTue 25 Oct 2016 12:30AM

Edited the thread description to provide context.

Venka can I ask why we would replace our vice-presidents at this time? I am trying to remember back to when we set up the vice-presendent positions at the face-2-face meeting if we had any requirement for these officers to also be board members?

Near as I can recall the vice-president position is there to provide you some back up (so you can take a holiday) and to share the workload (since your "office" takes on any work not covered by committee).

Jody GarnettTue 25 Oct 2016 12:32AM

Okay here is the context - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016

President and Vice President Election
* HM nominated VR as president
* VR accepted nomination
* All in favour
* VR elected as OSGeo President
* HM and DF nominated as Vice President
* All in favour
* Term of this President/VP:Until the next board initial meeting after new board election.
* DF(Suggestion): need to change board members 2 yrs term to 3 yrs. This is a part of strategic plan of OSGeo.(JG)

So I seem to have my answer, the term of President/VP is until the next board initial meeting.

Jody GarnettTue 1 Nov 2016 10:27PM

Ah, so this vote is still alive? Not sure if this motion was still in play after our last meeting...

Angelos TzotsosTue 1 Nov 2016 10:32PM

I think we should close this vote and proceed with selection of President and Vice Presidents in our upcoming meeting

MOT3 that President and Vice-President be selecting from current board

proposal by Jody Garnett Closed Fri 4 Nov 2016 5:09AM

Outcome
by Jody Garnett Tue 25 Apr 2017 5:52AM

Given the two objections raised this motion is withdrawn

See IRC log for details

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