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

Mon May 9 08:10:04 PDT 2016

Du moment que la décision soit prise avant le 11 mai (mercredi ;) )

Je sens que l'on tient un sujet pour l'ice-breaker :)

Y.
On Monday, May 09, 2016 17:03:35 Jean-Marie Arsac wrote:
> Salut Yves,
> 
> Pas de décision prise à ma connaissance.
> On peut voir ces 3 jours...
> 
> 
> Jean-Marie Arsac
> Azimut
> 
> <div>-------- Message d'origine --------</div><div>De : Yves Jacolin
> <yjacolin at free.fr> </div><div>Date :09/05/2016  16:39  (GMT+01:00)
> </div><div>À : francophone at lists.osgeo.org </div><div>Objet : [Francophone]
> Fwd: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting
 	members of the
> QGIS.org board. </div><div> </div>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.
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> 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_BaG0Ieg8TDT
> 0pM/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8T
> DT0pM/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_rtKyGqciB
> PW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wte5pfcpOeZ1bfBUn7KJuYzw31_rtKyGqc
> iBPW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing> [4] Organisation and voting process diagram:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=sharin
> g
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=shar
> ing>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Tim Sutton
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
> tim at qgis.org
> 
> 
> 
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