[GRASS-PSC] [GRASS-user] Call for candidates for Chief Return Officer(s) to oversee election of new Project Steering Committee

[Moritz Lennert]

Great, thanks a lot !

I'll wait until tomorrow to see if anyone else from other time zones 
wants to volunteer and cooperate with you. Then we can launch the process.

Moritz

On 10/12/20 12:48, Hernán De Angelis wrote:
> Hi again Moritz,
> 
> Thank you for the information. I will gladly volunteer for the role.
> 
> It will be nice to give back to this community.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Hernán
> 
> 
> 
> On 2020-12-10 12:10, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> Hi Hernán,
>>
>> Am 10.12.2020 09:25 schrieb Hernán De Angelis:
>>> Hi Moritz
>>>
>>> I can think of contributing as a CRO provided I can better understand
>>> what the role is about and what is expected.
>>>
>>> I see some info here:
>>>
>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020
>>>
>>> Is there something else to read?
>>
>> Actually no. We're a community that has worked very well on a fairly 
>> informal level for years, so there is not much in terms of written 
>> rules or laws, so this page is the closest we have to a voting procedure.
>>
>> Basically the tasks are:
>>
>> - Announce elections and election procedures
>> - Receive nominations and confirmation from candidates that they 
>> accept to be nominated
>> - Fill out the list of nominees on the wiki page
>> - Collect some info from the candidates and put it on the wiki page 
>> (see at the very end of the page the suggestion, i.e. ask each 
>> candidate to respond to the question  "What should the community 
>> expect from your PSC membership?")
>> - organize the election (configure vote on 
>> https://vote.heliosvoting.org/, launch vote, launch reminder, tally 
>> votes)
>> - announce results
>>  - deal with any complaints (I doubt that there will be any)
>>
>> I hope this provides you with what you need to decide. If not, don't 
>> hesitate to come back to me.
>>
>> Moritz
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 2020-12-10 09:14, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>>>> 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 (PSC) [1]. Although 
>>>> most decisions are taken by consensus via the mailing lists 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).
>>>>
>>>> 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 
>>>> [2].
>>>>
>>>> The first step in that procedure is the nomination of one (or 
>>>> several) Chief Return Officer(s) (CRO) who will oversee the election 
>>>> process and who should not be a member of the current PSC, nor aim 
>>>> at becoming a member of the new PSC.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone willing to play this role ? You can just respond directly 
>>>> here on the list to display your interest.
>>>>
>>>> In a second step, we will be looking for candidates for the new PSC. 
>>>> For an overview of the (fairly low-noise) activity of the PSC, you 
>>>> can browse through the archives of its public mailing list [3]. 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.
>>>>
>>>> On behalf of the current PSC,
>>>> Moritz
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC 
>>>> <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC>
>>>>
>>>> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/PSC/Election2020
>>>>
>>>> [3] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/
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