[Osmf-talk] OSMF board election: irregularities in sending out election ballots

[Edward Bainton]

Completely support that approach . Thanks

Sent from my mobile device with apologies for brevity.


On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 at 04:49, Heather Leson <heatherleson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for this update, Sarah. This is a fair decision and good
> governance.
>
>
> Heather
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 19:54 Sarah Hoffmann via osmf-talk <
> osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear OSMF members,
>>
>> In the last few days we have received complaints from multiple members
>> eligible to vote that they had not received the emails with the link for
>> their vote to the OSMF board elections. We investigated this and found
>> that
>> there is a bug in our management software, which prevented PayPal payments
>> that were made through automatic renewal to be registered in the system.
>> As a result, members who have correctly renewed their membership have not
>> received a voting email. We are still investigating the full extend of
>> users affected. So far we have identified at least 45 members. Some of
>> you have already received the voting email today, the others will follow.
>>
>> Those members who receive their voting email late will have
>> very little time to cast their vote. The board would like to give them a
>> little bit more time. We therefore propose the following procedure:
>>
>> At tomorrow's Annual General Meeting, the chair will ask the present
>> members
>> to adjourn the meeting before the results of the election are announced.
>> The meeting shall then be continued exactly one week later on
>> Saturday, 16th December 2023 at 16:00 UTC
>> with the announcement of the election
>> results. The election will remain open for all members until
>> 15:00 UTC Saturday, 16th December 2023.
>>
>> We recognise that this is highly unusual. However, given that in past
>> elections seats have been won with as little as a few votes difference,
>> we consider it important that every member of the OSM Foundation has a
>> chance to vote.
>>
>> We hope that the membership understands and supports the decision of the
>> board.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Sarah Hoffmann for the OSMF board
>>
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