[Board] Fwd: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting members of the QGIS.org board.
Helena Mitasova
hmitaso at ncsu.edu
Mon May 9 17:16:52 PDT 2016
Following Jody’s suggestion, I am taking this discussion to the public board list.
I have no objections to Mike serving as OSGeo representative on the QGIS.org board.
Thank you Michael for volunteering for this position,
Helena
> On May 9, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Mike,abstaining from votes would kind of defeat the purpose of the OSGeo vote serving as a potential tie breaker if the two other represented groups would disagree on a decision.
>
> I'm fine with taking this back to public, I actually missed the exact point when this went to private ;)
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anita, if that is your only concern, the just abstain from that vote. I thought there were other reasons. But you are by far the best person for this position. I just didn't want to leave it uncovered.
>
> Michael Smith
> Remote Sensing/GIS Center
> US Army Corps of Engineers
>
> On May 9, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Before informing Tim should we run this chat on the public email list?
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:04 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Thanks Mike,
>>
>> That would be great if you could be the OSGeo representative. My main concern and reason why I wouldn't want to serve as the OSGeo representative at this point is that one of the first tasks will be to "reconfirm" the current PSC as QGIS.org board and it would be weird to vote for myself.
>>
>> If there are no objections, we could inform Tim and the others that Mike will be voting as the OSGeo representative.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you read the request, they wanted someone other than Anita for this
>> position.
>>
>> I'm getting near the end of my term, but I'm planning on running again and
>> I can certainly volunteer for this if no one else has a deep interest in
>> this.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Michael Smith
>>
>> Remote Sensing/GIS Center
>> US Army Corps of Engineers
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/9/16, 10:56 AM, "Venkatesh Raghavan" <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I think Anita who is active in the QGIS community
>> >will be excellent to as an OSGeo Board Representative in the
>> >QGIS PSC.
>> >
>> >Best
>> >
>> >Venka
>> >
>> >On 2016/05/09 23:53, Dirk Frigne wrote:
>> >> To pick this up before May 11...
>> >>
>> >> Shouldn't we agree to nominate somebody of the board?
>> >>
>> >> Anita, as you proposed the question, is it a good idea to nominate you?
>> >> Or do the committee prefer a none PSC member of QGIS?
>> >>
>> >> I think QGis is a very important community and a close relationship with
>> >> OSGeo is very important, so I think we certainly should answer this
>> >> question.
>> >>
>> >> Dirk
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> >> Subject: Re: [Board] Fwd: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for
>> >> voting members of the QGIS.org board.
>> >> Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 13:41:58 +0000
>> >> From: Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> >> To: Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>
>> >> CC: osgeo-board List <board at lists.osgeo.org>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ah okay I get it - so you would like a representative (like with
>> >> LocationTech). I totally respect that, a person is more useful than
>> >> memorandum of understanding.
>> >>
>> >> Keep in mind that the foundation (not just the board) already has you as
>> >> a point of contact with QGIS. You are already an officer of the
>> >> foundation - about as official as it gets (indeed you have ability to
>> >> act that a board member does not).
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:16 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com
>> >> <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Jody (resending as my tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org> address
>> >> is not registered on the board list).
>> >>
>> >>> On 05 May 2016, at 14:16, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
>> >>> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I wonder who we can ask? I know Larry has been interacting with
>> >>> SAC on certificate stuff - he may be willing. It may be nice to
>> >>> find a QGIS power user who could represent us, or someone from
>> >>> education?
>> >>
>> >> Just for a bit of back history: The thinking behind having an OSGEO
>> >> voting member was to try to maintain close ties with the OSGEO
>> >>board
>> >> even as we become an independent (from OSGEO) legal organisation.
>> >>So
>> >> I would think ideally it would be an OSGEO board member and yes
>> >> having insight into the QGIS community would be helpful. The
>> >> engagement would be pretty low on the nominated person - primarily
>> >> to vote to approve / disapprove the QGIS annual budget and report,
>> >> and to vote in (or out :-P) members of the QGIS board.
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >>
>> >> Tim
>> >>
>> >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:57 AM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at
>> >>> <mailto:anitagraser at gmx.at>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Dear board,
>> >>>
>> >>> The QGIS community is asking OSGeo to provide a representative
>> >>> to become a voting member of the new QGIS.org
>> >>> <http://qgis.org> legal entity. Tasks include electing the
>> >>> QGIS board and approving the budget. Please find details below
>> >>> in Tim's email.
>> >>> N
>> >>> omination ends on Wed 11 May. I think it would be great if
>> >>> someone from the OSGeo board volunteers. Since I'm on the QGIS
>> >>> PSC, I think someone else should be the OSGeo representative.
>> >>>
>> >>> Please let us know if there are any questions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Best wishes,
>> >>> Anita
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >>> From: *Tim Sutton* <tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>>
>> >>> Date: Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:56 PM
>> >>> Subject: [Qgis-developer] Call for nominations for voting
>> >>> members of the QGIS.org <http://qgis.org> board.
>> >>> To: QGIS Developer Mailing List
>> >>> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> >>> <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>>, QGIS Translation
>> >>> Discussions <qgis-tr at lists.osgeo.org
>> >>> <mailto:qgis-tr at lists.osgeo.org>>, qgis-community
>> >>> <qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
>> >>> <mailto: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_BaG0Ieg
>> >>>8TDT0pM/edit?usp=sharing
>> >>> [1] User group registration: http://goo.gl/forms/6cBt8w97VC
>> >>> [2] Community voting member nominations
>> >>> form: http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C
>> >>> [3] Registered User
>> >>> Groups:
>> >>>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wte5pfcpOeZ1bfBUn7KJuYzw31_rtKyG
>> >>>qciBPW3RXwg/edit?usp=sharing
>> >>> [4] Organisation and voting process
>> >>> diagram:
>> >>>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__vDnQXCKiwdWMxQlN4X1BvZDg/view?usp=sh
>> >>>aring
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ---
>> >>>
>> >>> *Tim Sutton*
>> >>> QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
>> >>> tim at qgis.org <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >>> --
>> >>> --
>> >>> Jody Garnett
>> >>> <qgis_icon.jpg>
>> >> —
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *Tim Sutton*
>> >>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>
Helena Mitasova
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and Center for Geospatial Analytics
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