[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation voting

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Earley" <dean at earlsoft.co.uk>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Foundation voting


>>>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.
>
> Well, from the foundation page, it all looked like it was still "Work in 
> progress" (Think "This vote will be open from June 11, 2006 for a period 
> of x days.").

I think the crucial point, as you yourself have noted, is "the vote will be 
open from June 11 onwards".  Everyone had an oportunity to register for 
voting prior to that.  Given that there was only only nomination for each 
post its slightly irrelevant about how long the vote was open for.

>There was no mention (that I saw) of a vote actually taking place or any 
>information even on how to.

If you had registered to vote then you would have been subscribed to the 
vote mailing list.

>
> The last I saw was "we're going to do this, register by doing XYZ" then 
> nothing.
>
> Feel free to point me to the posts I missed though :)
>
> -- 

David Groom