[Francophone] Fwd: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting members of the QGIS.org board.

[Yves Jacolin]

Bonjour,

Il y a une opportunité ici pour que l'OSGeo-fr soit un contact pour la 
communauté francophone de QGIS.

Il y avait eu des discussions lors de la précédente rencontre utilisateurs de 
QGIS en décembre dernier. Est ce qu'une décision du bureau a été prise en ce 
sens (ou contre) ?

Merci,

Y.

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Subject: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting members of the 
QGIS.org board.
Date: Wednesday, May 04, 2016, 23:56:00
From: Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org>
To: QGIS Developer Mailing List <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>, QGIS 
Translation Discussions <qgis-tr at lists.osgeo.org>, qgis-community <qgis-
community-team at lists.osgeo.org>

Dear QGIS Community members

As many of you will be aware, in this last year we have been embarking on the 
process to transition from a loose-knit community organisation to a more 
formal organisation. This new organisation ‘QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/>’ will 
be a legal entity and will afford us a greater amount of flexibility in how we 
manage funds, legal agreements and so forth. You can read the statutes for the 
QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> organisation at [0] below.

Under the statutes of the new organisation, there will be one user group 
voting member put forward for each registered user group (user group 
registration page is here [1]). For each user group voting member we will have 
a community voting member elected. In addition there will be one voting member 
from the OSGEO leadership. It is probably best explained by way of a simple 
(contrived) example:

1) The Martian user group puts forward Joe Alien to be their QGIS User Group 
Voting Member.
2) QGIS committers put forward nominations for a matching Community Voting 
Member from within the community. Community member with the highest number of 
nominations is elected. Only people with git commit rights to an official QGIS 
repository or write access to the QGIS translation platform on transifex can 
put forward nominations. Nominated person can be any person from within the 
QGIS community who is willing to serve as a voting QGIS community member.
3)  The Moon user group puts forward Janet Luna to be their QGIS User Group 
Voting Member.
4) QGIS committers again nominate a matching Community Voting Member
5) OSGEO puts forward one person to act as the OSGEO voting member.

Voting members will elect the QGIS Board, Board Chairman and approve budgets 
and the annual report. Once elected, the board will make day to day decisions 
on behalf of the project as needed. The OSGEO voting member will also serve to 
ensure that there are always an odd number of voting members to avoid 
deadlocks. Voting members will be confirm their 

Since we are bootstrapping the QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> organisation, we 
have not yet elected any voting members. Currently there are 10 QGIS User 
Groups registered [3], thus we would like to invite all people who have Git 
commit access to any official QGIS repo, or transifex write access to make their 
nominations for their community voting members. The 10 consenting nominees 
with the highest number of nominations will be appointed as community voting 
members. 

We will close the nomination period on Wed 11 May if at least 10 unique 
persons have been nominated, otherwise as soon as 10 unique persons have been 
nominated.

We will maintain a list of the QGIS Voting Members on the web site for public 
viewing.

After all of the voting members have been elected they will be asked to elect 
the members of the board. Board members need not be voting members, any QGIS 
community member can be elected to the board. For formation of the new board, 
existing PSC members will automatically be nominated and the community voting 
members can also put up additional nominations. We would then put the election 
of the board members to a vote (maintaining the same number of members as are 
currently in the PSC for now). Once the board has officially been elected, the 
voting members can then select a chair for the board. Note that all voting 
will be done electronically via an online form.

By this process we will have a democratically elected board entrusted with 
stewardship of the new QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> Organisation. 

Each year we will hold an annual general meeting and voting members can elect 
a new chair, or re-elect the existing chair. Similarly on a rotational basis, 
board members will be up for re-election each year. If things are a little 
unclear above, I have made a simple diagram which hopefully clarifies things 
(see [4] below). Note that Gary Sherman (QGIS project founder) is board member 
emeritus and this will not be up for re-election as he has life long tenure on 
the board.

So if you are eligible to nominate voting members (i.e. you are a committer on 
any official QGIS repo or a Transifex author), please head over to the link 
provided in [2] below and make your nomination!

[0] Statutes: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8TDT0pM/edit?usp=sharing 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8TDT0pM/edit?usp=sharing>
[1] User group registration: http://goo.gl/forms/6cBt8w97VC 
<http://goo.gl/forms/6cBt8w97VC>
[2] Community voting member nominations form: http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C 
<http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C>
[3] Registered User Groups: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wte5pfcpOeZ1bfBUn7KJuYzw31_rtKyGqciBPW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wte5pfcpOeZ1bfBUn7KJuYzw31_rtKyGqciBPW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing>
[4] Organisation and voting process diagram: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=sharing 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=sharing>





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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
tim at qgis.org




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