<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Salut Yves,</div><div><br></div><div>Pas de décision prise à ma connaissance.</div><div>On peut voir ces 3 jours...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Jean-Marie Arsac<div>Azimut</div><br><br><div>-------- Message d'origine --------</div><div>De : Yves Jacolin <yjacolin@free.fr> </div><div>Date :09/05/2016 16:39 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>À : francophone@lists.osgeo.org </div><div>Objet : [Francophone] Fwd: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting
members of the QGIS.org board. </div><div><br></div>Bonjour,<br><br>Il y a une opportunité ici pour que l'OSGeo-fr soit un contact pour la <br>communauté francophone de QGIS.<br><br>Il y avait eu des discussions lors de la précédente rencontre utilisateurs de <br>QGIS en décembre dernier. Est ce qu'une décision du bureau a été prise en ce <br>sens (ou contre) ?<br><br>Merci,<br><br>Y.<br><br>---------- Forwarded Message ----------<br><br>Subject: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting members of the <br>QGIS.org board.<br>Date: Wednesday, May 04, 2016, 23:56:00<br>From: Tim Sutton <tim@qgis.org><br>To: QGIS Developer Mailing List <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>, QGIS <br>Translation Discussions <qgis-tr@lists.osgeo.org>, qgis-community <qgis-<br>community-team@lists.osgeo.org><br><br>Dear QGIS Community members<br><br>As many of you will be aware, in this last year we have been embarking on the <br>process to transition from a loose-knit community organisation to a more <br>formal organisation. This new organisation ‘QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/>’ will <br>be a legal entity and will afford us a greater amount of flexibility in how we <br>manage funds, legal agreements and so forth. You can read the statutes for the <br>QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> organisation at [0] below.<br><br>Under the statutes of the new organisation, there will be one user group <br>voting member put forward for each registered user group (user group <br>registration page is here [1]). For each user group voting member we will have <br>a community voting member elected. In addition there will be one voting member <br>from the OSGEO leadership. It is probably best explained by way of a simple <br>(contrived) example:<br><br>1) The Martian user group puts forward Joe Alien to be their QGIS User Group <br>Voting Member.<br>2) QGIS committers put forward nominations for a matching Community Voting <br>Member from within the community. Community member with the highest number of <br>nominations is elected. Only people with git commit rights to an official QGIS <br>repository or write access to the QGIS translation platform on transifex can <br>put forward nominations. Nominated person can be any person from within the <br>QGIS community who is willing to serve as a voting QGIS community member.<br>3) The Moon user group puts forward Janet Luna to be their QGIS User Group <br>Voting Member.<br>4) QGIS committers again nominate a matching Community Voting Member<br>5) OSGEO puts forward one person to act as the OSGEO voting member.<br><br>Voting members will elect the QGIS Board, Board Chairman and approve budgets <br>and the annual report. Once elected, the board will make day to day decisions <br>on behalf of the project as needed. The OSGEO voting member will also serve to <br>ensure that there are always an odd number of voting members to avoid <br>deadlocks. Voting members will be confirm their <br><br>Since we are bootstrapping the QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> organisation, we <br>have not yet elected any voting members. Currently there are 10 QGIS User <br>Groups registered [3], thus we would like to invite all people who have Git <br>commit access to any official QGIS repo, or transifex write access to make their <br>nominations for their community voting members. The 10 consenting nominees <br>with the highest number of nominations will be appointed as community voting <br>members. <br><br>We will close the nomination period on Wed 11 May if at least 10 unique <br>persons have been nominated, otherwise as soon as 10 unique persons have been <br>nominated.<br><br>We will maintain a list of the QGIS Voting Members on the web site for public <br>viewing.<br><br>After all of the voting members have been elected they will be asked to elect <br>the members of the board. Board members need not be voting members, any QGIS <br>community member can be elected to the board. For formation of the new board, <br>existing PSC members will automatically be nominated and the community voting <br>members can also put up additional nominations. We would then put the election <br>of the board members to a vote (maintaining the same number of members as are <br>currently in the PSC for now). Once the board has officially been elected, the <br>voting members can then select a chair for the board. Note that all voting <br>will be done electronically via an online form.<br><br>By this process we will have a democratically elected board entrusted with <br>stewardship of the new QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> Organisation. <br><br>Each year we will hold an annual general meeting and voting members can elect <br>a new chair, or re-elect the existing chair. Similarly on a rotational basis, <br>board members will be up for re-election each year. If things are a little <br>unclear above, I have made a simple diagram which hopefully clarifies things <br>(see [4] below). Note that Gary Sherman (QGIS project founder) is board member <br>emeritus and this will not be up for re-election as he has life long tenure on <br>the board.<br><br>So if you are eligible to nominate voting members (i.e. you are a committer on <br>any official QGIS repo or a Transifex author), please head over to the link <br>provided in [2] below and make your nomination!<br><br>[0] Statutes: <br>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8TDT0pM/edit?usp=sharing <br><https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FcChHYgoI4FlURrZRYBjD8kB6IBW_BaG0Ieg8TDT0pM/edit?usp=sharing><br>[1] User group registration: http://goo.gl/forms/6cBt8w97VC <br><http://goo.gl/forms/6cBt8w97VC><br>[2] Community voting member nominations form: http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C <br><http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C><br>[3] Registered User Groups: <br>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wte5pfcpOeZ1bfBUn7KJuYzw31_rtKyGqciBPW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing <br><https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wte5pfcpOeZ1bfBUn7KJuYzw31_rtKyGqciBPW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing><br>[4] Organisation and voting process diagram: <br>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=sharing <br><https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=sharing><br><br><br><br><br><br>---<br><br>Tim Sutton<br>QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair<br>tim@qgis.org<br><br><br><br><br>-----------------------------------------<br>_______________________________________________<br>Francophone mailing list<br>Francophone@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/francophone</body>