[GRASS-PSC] PSC elections in 2020

[Helena Mitasova]

Moritz, 

the proposed email looks good. Preferably CRO should not be a PSC member (but could be a former member)
I wish the process was much simpler, but I don’t have any good ideas about how to simplify it,

Helena
  
> On Dec 8, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> 
> On 7/12/20 21:28, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Dear PSC,
>> 
>> Almost a year has passed...
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:08 AM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> Hi PSC,
>>> 
>>> I have drafted a page for the needed PSC elections:
>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020
>>> 
>>> All details yet to be defined.
>> I would like to re-suggest discussing the next PSC election.
> 
> +1
> 
> First step would probably be to find a CRO. Doesn't have to part of the current PSC, or ? So we should ask on the -dev and probably also the -user list for candidates. Any objections to me sending the following mail to both lists ?
> 
> Moritz
> 
> 
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> Dear all,
> 
> As part of the effort to guarantee a solid and sustainable governance of GRASS GIS development, and in accordance with OSGeo guidelines, we have a Project Steering Committee [1]. Although most decisions are taken by consensus via the developers mailing list or via discussions in github issues, some decisions go through this committee: annual budget, admission of new developers into the core development team, and some fundamental decisions (recent example: phasing out of a 32-bit version for MS Windows). For an overview of the (fairly low-noise) activity of the PSC, you can browse through the archives of its public mailing list [2]. You will see that it is not a job that requires a lot of work, but it is an essential job nevertheless. Also: no need to be a developer to be part of the PSC, users should also be represented.
> 
> The last election for this committee was in 2016 and at the time we decided that the PSC should be renewed approximately every 3 years. We are already beyond this time frame and so a new election should happen, soon. The general outline of the procedure has been drafted [3]. The first step in that procedure is the nomination of one (or several) Chief Return Officers who will oversee the election process.
> 
> Is anyone willing to play this role ? You can just respond directly here on the list to display your interest.
> 
> The current PSC
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> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC>
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> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/ <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/>
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> [3] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020
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Helena Mitasova
Professor at the Department of Marine, 
Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate director and faculty fellow at the Center for Geospatial Analytics
North Carolina State University
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