[GRASS-PSC] GRASS PSC elections in 2016

[Michael Barton]

My 2 cents. While that might seem like a good idea for now, given that there has been no change to the PSC for a number of years, I'm not convinced that is the best strategy for the long term. For a body like this, it is very important to have continuity of technical knowledge, but more importantly of project culture, ethos, and history. That is best achieved by staggered elections in which some portion (third, half) of the PCS is elected every couple years. It sounds like we need to replace about 1/3 of the PCS now due to some of the group moving on. So that would be a convenient number to get. 

 Michael
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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

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> On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>>> On Jun 3, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>>>> Can't we just have a system where every 3 years we reelect the complete PSC,
>>>> but people can be candidates for their own succession ? I'm not sure that there is
>>>> such a rush of people for this job, but if there is, great. Then the election will actually
>>>> be a real election ;-)
>> 
>> that is what I had in mind.
> 
> I start to like the idea to dissolve and re-elect (this time only or
> always) the entire PSC:
> 
> Markus
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