[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation voting

[Etienne]

On 6/22/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> * @ 22/06/06 08:10:50 PM dean at earlsoft.co.uk wrote:
> > David Groom wrote:
> > >Its probably worth a reminder that voting for the officers of the OSM
> > >Foundation is now open.
> > >
> > >Details of how to become registered for voting are on the wiki at
> > >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Foundation
> >
> > Ok, rather than everyone talking about it and not resolving anything, I
> > (Someone who can be arsed to do it) will set a date for all nominations
> > to be received and the vote.
> >
> > All nominations are to be received/wiki'd by 8PM BST on the 29th of
> > June. Voting will then commence for a period of 7 days until 8PM BST on
> > the 6th of July.
> > This will be done by Condorcet voting (as used by Debian, Blitzed IRC
> > and Denmark iirc...) to the address of osmvote at earlsoft.co.uk.
> > I am not being nominated and so be unbiased. I can however have the
> > emails copied elsewhere as well if anyone wants to make sure.
>
> So I don't think this is cool. We've had a deadline for becoming a
> member who can vote in the initial vote, we had a period for nominating
> people, we even voted. In my mind that stage is all over. What's next is
> Etienne, Imi (if he's still up for it) and I hold an IRC meet to focus
> on what to work on, define membership and so on. I'm happy to cut in
> half our term lengths or something, but we have to get moving somehow.
>

I agree, there was an open and agreed process.  It would be irregular
to re-open nominations after the start of the vote period.

There are plenty of roles that need to be filled so anyone who wants
to help out will be welcomed.  One of the main points of getting
organised is to spread the workload so that Steve has more time and
OSM can move forward faster.

Etienne