<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Firstly my apologies if things are not all as clear as they should be for the community voting member nomination process - please bear in mind that we are bootstrapping the <a href="http://qgis.org" class="">QGIS.org</a> and the governance of it and we can certainly expect some teething troubles along the way. I would like to respond to some of the queries that have been raised and extend the deadline (new deadline is Friday 20 May 2016) for voting to accommodate those who still have doubts. I am going to write mainly in bullet points to keep things as clear as possible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eligibility to nominate:</div><div class="">=================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you fall into one of these groups you can make your nominations:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* all people with commit rights to any official QGIS repository on GitHub : <a href="https://github.com/orgs/qgis/people" class="">https://github.com/orgs/qgis/people</a> (note that page is paginated so check the subsequent pages if you are not on the first page)</div><span class="">* language maintainers and admins for any officially translated language on transifex for any of these transifex projects: QGIS Desktop, QGIS Documentation, QGIS Website - <a href="https://www.transifex.com/qgis/" class="">https://www.transifex.com/qgis/</a></span><div class=""><span class="">* any Redmine user with ‘manager’ status in this list <a href="http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/settings/members" class="">http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/settings/members</a> (if you can’t see that page, you are not in the manager list). These users are listed as redmine managers:</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">4everskiff <br class="">Alessandro Pasotti<br class="">Alexander Bruy<br class="">Etienne Tourigny<br class="">Gary Sherman<br class="">Giovanni Manghi<br class="">Giuseppe Sucameli<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Jürgen Fischer<br class="">Larry Shaffer<br class="">Marco Hugentobler<br class="">Martin Dobias<br class="">Matthias Kuhn<br class="">Médéric RIBREUX<br class="">Paolo Cavallini<br class="">Radim Blazek<br class="">Raymond Nijssen<br class="">Richard Duivenvoorde<br class="">Saber Razmjooei<br class="">Tim Sutton</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class="">Nomination process:</div><div class="">================</div></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">* if you fall into any of the above groups you can nominate UP TO TEN persons from the broader QGIS community </span>who you consider to be good candidates to be QGIS Community Voting members</div><div class="">* once all of the nominations are in, we will count the nominations and elect the community voting members based on the number of votes they have received.</div><div class="">* in the event of a tie breaker (e.g. the number of nominees exceeds 11 nominees with the lowest number of votes have the same amount of votes so we cannot determine the ’top eleven’), we will provide an opportunity to do another round of nominations for the contested places.</div><div class="">* Make your nomination using this form: <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C" class="">http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C</a></div><div class="">* PSC members may also participate in the nomination process but are not eligible for nomination</div><div class="">* I encourage you to be diverse in your nominations - QGIS aspires to be a welcoming community to people from all walks of life and we do not discriminate based on coders, non-coders, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, geographic community etc. See our diversity statement: <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/diversitystatement.html" class="">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/diversitystatement.html</a> and code of conduct: <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofconduct.html" class="">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofconduct.html</a></div><div class="">* You do not need to contact your nominee first to determine if they are willing to serve as voting member. We will verify each shortlisted nominee is available to serve as a community voting member and remove them from the master list if they are not.</div><div class="">* The deadline for nominations has been extended until Midnight CET, Friday 20 May 2016</div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">User groups:</span></div><div class=""><span class="">============</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">* User groups may replace their voting member at any time</div><div class="">* User group voting members are NOT eligible to elect the community voting members unless they are also in one of the groups listed above in ‘eligibility to nominate'</div><div class=""><span class="">* The following representatives of user groups will automatically be assumed to be the user group voting member representatives:</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Contact person<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QGIS User Group name</span></div><div class=""><span class="">——————————————————————————————————<br class="">1 Brent Wood<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NIWA QGIS USer Group<br class="">2 Anibal Alarcon<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lima Perú QGIS User Group<br class="">3 Paolo Cavallini<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gruppo degli utenti italiani di QGIS<br class="">4 Lene Fischer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QGIS Brugergruppe Danmark<br class="">5 Ross McDonald<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QGIS UK - Scottish User Group<br class="">6 simon miles<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>England<br class="">7 João Gaspar<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QGIS Portugal<br class="">8 Kevin Williams<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Wales (Cymru)<br class="">9 Thomas Schüttenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QGIS Anwendergruppe Deutschland e.V. (QGIS-DE e.V.)<br class="">10 Andreas Neumann<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>QGIS User Group Switzerland<br class="">11 Milena Nowotarska<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Polska Grupa Użytkowników QGIS<br class=""></span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What happens next?</div><div class="">================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* After the nomination process for the QGIS Community Voting members there will be 23 voting members consisting of:</div><div class=""> * 11 User group voting members</div><div class=""> * 11 Community voting members</div><div class=""> * 1 OSGEO board voting member</div><div class="">* The voting members will elect the board</div><div class="">* All current PSC members will (unless they request otherwise) be candidates for election to the board</div><div class="">* Voting members may nominate additional candidates for the board election</div><div class="">* The candidates can be ANY QGIS community member (i.e. not only those identified in the eligibility to nominate section above)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* The PSC currently consists of </div><div class=""> * 1 Tim Sutton (Chair), </div><div class=""> * 2 Paolo Cavallini (Vice chair), </div><div class=""> * 3 Otto Dassau</div><div class=""> * 4 Marco Hugentobler</div><div class=""> * 5 Anita Graser</div><div class=""> * 6 Andreas Neumann (treasurer)</div><div class=""> * 7 Richard Duivenvoorde</div><div class=""> * 8 Paolo Cavallini</div><div class=""> * 9 Jürgen Fischer</div><div class=""> * 10 Gary Sherman (project founder, honorary member for life)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* The voting members will elect the Board consisting of 9 elected members + Gary Sherman by electronic vote</div><div class="">* The Board, when elected, will elect a chairman</div><div class="">* We are going to move the first Annual General Meeting of the Board to Bonn later this year</div><div class="">* We will announce the election results at the AGM meeting in Bonn later this year</div><div class="">* If you would like to discuss anything about the Verein procedures, join us at the Town Hall Meeting on 26 May 2016 at the QGIS User conference - <a href="http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/en/international-qgis-user-and-developer-conference/conferencia-qgis/" class="">http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/en/international-qgis-user-and-developer-conference/conferencia-qgis/</a> (details still pending on that page)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* The voting members will be asked to approve the <a href="http://qgis.org" class="">QGIS.org</a> budget each year (by electronic vote)</div><div class="">* The voting members will be asked to approve the project status report from the chair each year (by electronic vote)</div><div class="">* The voting members will be asked to vote on board member elections</div><div class="">* Voting members will NOT be required to attend meetings in-person in order to vote, but will be expected to vote and stay informed about the QGIS project in order to make a meaningful vote.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is all rather complicated...</div><div class="">=======================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes I know and I can only apologise for that! We are trying to keep things as simple as possible whilst still keeping it democratic and fair. Its not easy to balance these things and we expect to iteratively improve and refine the process over time. As an organisation there are various statutory requirements we need to adhere to and various procedural requirements that we need to follow if we are to change our <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>voting system etc. I expect that we will do a revision to the above process based on your (constructive) feedback, but we need to limit these amendments to as few as possible because it is a high administrative overhead to deal with changes to the <a href="http://qgis.org" class="">QGIS.org</a> statutes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries, I will try to help / address your concerns.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With thanks,</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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