[Osmf-talk] 2021 Board election - Submission of self-nominations has closed

[Simon Poole]

While there are obviously a lot of similarities between a political 
process to elect positions in a parliament and the OSMF board election, 
equating them is taking this a bit too far in my opinion (there are a 
lot of differences but I'm not going to bore everybody with all of them).

In particular the whole process timeline is at the discretion of the 
board to start with and it has changed multiple times in the history of 
the organisation, for example the nominations used to end two weeks 
before the election, now it seems to be four (extending the OSMFs silly 
season a lot :-)). The 10 day nomination period seems to be recent (as 
in the last couple of years) too in any case it is nothing sacred that 
is written in stone (is it documented in any medium?). Now you can argue 
that once the rules are announced they shouldn't be changed willy-nilly 
however arbitrary they were determined and I would agree, but on the 
other hand the whole purpose of the nomination process is to provide the 
membership with choice and it has miserably failed to do that, not for 
the 1st time I note.

Simon

Am 25.10.2021 um 04:19 schrieb Allan Mustard:
>
> Speaking only for myself, and not on behalf of the OSMF Board: I will 
> not vote to change election procedures or the election schedule in the 
> middle of an election process. My honors baccalaureate in political 
> science informs me that tinkering with election procedures during an 
> ongoing election is considered evidence of fraud and manipulation. I 
> will not be a party to that. Others may hold different views. 
> Potential candidates knew the deadlines and had opportunities to 
> nominate themselves; if they did not, that was their choice.
>
> cheers,
> apm
>
> On 10/24/2021 2:43 PM, Heather Leson wrote:
>> Well. Clear Election procedures are important. Changing a timeline 
>> could have an impact on the AGM timing.
>>
>> Heather
>>
>> On Sun., Oct. 24, 2021, 20:05 Simon Poole, <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     Am 24. Oktober 2021 19:36:03 MESZ schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via
>>     osmf-talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>:
>>     >Is it actually possible for board to extend nomination period in
>>     this way?
>>
>>     Why wouldn't it be? The nomination period is not something
>>     required or defined in the AoA or elsewhere. Now there could be
>>     situations in which changing the deadline could be problematic,
>>     for example shortening it, but a simple extension would seem to
>>     not impact any members rights.
>>
>>     Obviously the candidates need to be known to the board and
>>     membership before the elections start, but everything else is
>>     likely just our conventions.
>>
>>     Simon
>>
>>     >
>>     >If yes, then it would be quite nice as it stands it is less
>>     >"select people fitting to lead OSMF" and more
>>     >"which 2 of 6 people are the worst candidates".
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >Oct 24, 2021, 12:31 by simon at poole.ch:
>>     >
>>     >>
>>     >> I would suggest that the board extends the nomination period
>>     by a      week given the lack of diversity in the candidates.
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> Simon
>>     >>
>>     >> Am 24.10.2021 um 02:28 schrieb Dorothea Kazazi:
>>     >>
>>     >>> Hello,
>>     >>>
>>     >>> Submission of self-nominations has closed.
>>     >>> There are six candidates for four board seats:
>>     >>>
>>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM21/Election_to_Board#List
>>     >>>
>>     >>> Members can continue adding their questions at:
>>     >>>  >>
>>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM21/Election_to_Board#Community_questions_to_OSMF_board_candidates.2C_upon_which_the_official_set_will_be_based
>>     >>>
>>     >>> warm greetings,
>>     >>> Dorothea
>>     >>>
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