[GRASS-PSC] [GRASS GIS Elections 2020] Current members of the PSC willing to stand up for reelection?

Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 variablestarlight at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 03:34:55 PST 2020


On 2020-12-22 12:08, Markus Neteler wrote:
> PSC, all,
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 10:28 AM Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> Am 22. Dezember 2020 09:24:17 MEZ schrieb "Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020" <variablestarlight at gmail.com>:
>>> On 2020-12-21 22:20, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
>>>> wouldn't it be more transparent if current GRASS GIS PSC members are
>>>> nominated for re-election in the same way by the community as possible new
>>>> candidates?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for your input, Helmut. The election wiki is not very clear about
>>> this, it only states that "current PSC members will be asked if they
>>> wish to stand as a candidate for the upcoming election" without any
>>> further clarification. This is definitely a grey area worth developing.
>>> I agree your proposal is a good idea, but it is possibly not my role to
>>> decide on this. Also it is possibly late as we we have already launched
>>> the nominations.
>>>
>>> I believe this is something the PSC can decide:
>>>
>>> 1. should current PSC members have the right to stand up for reelection
>>> without explicit nomination? (current line of action)
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> 2. should current PSC members have to be nominated in the same way as
>>> any other member of the community? (we could start right now as no PSC
>>> members have yet stand up)
>> I agree with Helmut and would plead for 2).
> I also agree with Helmut and would plead for 2).
>
>> But I agree with Hernán that we should have discussed this earlier.
> Still it is not too late, say, "nothing lost".

Marcus, what do you say on this? What do other PSC members say? Shall 
the PSC make a consensus on these proposals? In that case it would be 
nice to have the matter resolved rather sooner than later.

Hernán (CRO)



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