[GRASS-PSC] GRASS PSC elections in 2016

[Michael Barton]

Thanks for doing this. It sounds like a good procedure so far.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC)
fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu















> On Jun 2, 2016, at 10:49 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>> On May 14, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> ...
>>> - June 2016: elections (here it would be great use the technology of
>>> the OSGeo charter member elections)
>> 
>> there will be new technology used this year - Vasile knows more about it.
> 
> I asked him: it is the same as in the last 2 years: Limesurvey.
> 
>>> Here we have the problem to not have a charter membership.
>> 
>> we can have a system where anybody can nominate a candidate and the contributors with
>> svn access (both core and add-ons) vote - can you find out how many we have ?
> 
> I have done that (also Martin L could do) by querying the registered
> 
>  38 GRASS Core developers
>  79 GRASS Addon developers
> 117 total
> 
> A few names are double, so unique names:
> 105 total
> 
> Like the QGIS project (AFAIK), we could add the translators:
> 100 translators
> 
>> if we have enough developers with svn access (core and add-on) they could represent “charter members”
>> because they are considered trusted members of the community.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> But it would be good to find a way how to include power users who do not have svn access.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> The questions are
> - how get get in the power users, how to "identify" them?
> - and: how to contact all people mentioned above? Those with OSGeo ID
> I can lookup in the system, the CSV tables are fine, too. Mass
> mailing?
> 
>> This is just my suggestion to keep things simple - we can put this out for dicussion on the
>> GRASS dev and users list.
> 
> Yes.
> Let's complete this pre-round here, then I am happy to bring it up
> there with a concrete proposal we agree upon in this list.
> 
> Markus
> _______________________________________________
> grass-psc mailing list
> grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc