[GRASS-PSC] GRASS PSC elections in 2016

[Michael Barton]

Again, this sounds good to me. I thought GRASS IS a charter member of OSGEO. We were part of the initial formation of the organization.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
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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 May 14, 2016, at 8:34 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear PSC,
> 
> time has passed since the last elections in 2012. As the chair of the
> PSC I suggest that we renew part of the current PSC (see:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC#Members).
> I suggest the following tentative schedule:
> 
> - May 2016: preannounce elections (see this email) and
>  - identify members who do not stand for election
>  - identify inactive members (here the Geoserver PSC has some useful rules [1]
>  - assign free'd up slots to election
> 
> - May 2016: officially announce PSC elections
> 
> - 16 June 2016, 12:00 UTC: nominations possible by community
> 
> - June 2016: elections (here it would be great use the technology of
> the OSGeo charter member elections)
>  Here we have the problem to not have a charter membership.
> 
> - July 2016: PSC communicates the new members.
> 
> 
> IMPORTANT:
> We need to solve the following issues:
> - how to remove members from the PSC? (see [1] for inspiration)
> - how to elect new members?
> 
> Best,
> Markus
> 
> [1] http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/psc.html#stepping-down
> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2016 (draft)
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