<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Marco, lists</div><div><br></div><div>While I trust German and the Colombian user group's democratic procedures for delivering a vote to their representative, I deeply believe that having the same person as both a country voting member and a community voting member is a step in the wrong direction.</div><div>It defeats the purpose of the Community Voting Members concept, which is to bring in more people to the QGIS commons and have a diverse pool of voters in the general meeting.</div><div>Imagine the case where all country user groups had the same person as both a representative and a community voting member. In addition to that, one could also be OSGEO voting member and Honorary voting member too, casting a total of 4 votes! In theory one could have the integrity to cast four independent votes, but it would surely not look good to the public and we should protect the project from such scenarios.</div><div><br></div><div>I therefore suggest that the PSC amends the Charter [0], explicitly making all four types of voting members as mutually exclusive positions, similar to how voting member and PSC positions are already mutually exclusive.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am sure the Colombian, French and Swiss user groups have plenty of members that can step up to replace their representatives.</div><div><br></div><div>I would love to read others' opinions on the matter!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefanos<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="https://qgis.org/community/foundation/charter/">https://qgis.org/community/foundation/charter/</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 18:45, Marco Bernasocchi <<a href="mailto:marco@qgis.org">marco@qgis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hey Stefanos,<div dir="auto">That is correct, German is already listed as the *representative* of the user group Colombia.</div><div dir="auto">The UG Colombia vote is obviously not his vote but the vote of the Colombian user group.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That means that he will be listed twice as we already have for other members loke Harrissou and France.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers Marco </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, 02:12 Stefanos Natsis, <<a href="mailto:uclaros@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">uclaros@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you Marco,</div><div>and thank you to those taking the time to vote; participating in commons is an important part of the QGIS community.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a question regarding the ballot, though: <br></div><div>The new QGIS website says Germán is already a voting member as a representative of the Colombian user group. <br></div><div>Is the site not up to date? Was the user group disbanded (I can see they lost their registered domain)?</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Stefanos</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 23:03, Marco Bernasocchi <<a href="mailto:marco@qgis.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">marco@qgis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Community, <div>Thanks for taking the time to respond to the community member vote.</div><div>The vote closed last week, and I want to share the unofficial results.</div><div><br></div><div>As stated, we had four slots up for elections and five candidates. </div><div><br></div><div>We had 20 votes with the following results</div><div><br></div><div>Germán Carrillo 19<br>Stefanos Natsis 16<br>Isabel Kiefer 16<br></div><div>Damiano Lombardi 15<br>Saber Razmjooei 14<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm still waiting for a response from two voters I could not confirm as active QGIS contributors, so *<b>these results still need to be considered unofficial*</b>. <br>If the voters were not confirmed as active, the only absolute difference would be that Damiano would have the same votes as Saber, and we would need to run a second round between them.</div><div><br></div><div>In this sense, I would already heartfeltly welcome Germán, Stefanos, and Isabel to our voting members community. Thank you so much for all you do for the project!<br><br>I'll follow up with the definitive results next week with the next steps needed.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Marco</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 00:35, Marco Bernasocchi <<a href="mailto:marco@qgis.org" rel="noref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an><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Voting will close on Friday 25 October 2024 23:59UTC.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The voting form is here:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://forms.gle/64zomCdCtccHQqfp8" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/64zomCdCtccHQqfp8</a><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you have any questions about the voting process, please do not hesitate to contact me</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Cheers</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Marco</span></p></span><br><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Marco Bernasocchi<div><div><br></div><div>QGIS.org Chair<br>OPENGIS.ch CEO</div></div><div><a href="http://berna.io" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://berna.io</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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