[GRASS-PSC] Voter question

[Veronica Andreo]

Hi everyone! Thanks for this discussion and always thinking of improving! :)

El mié, 30 oct 2024 a las 12:26, Hernán De Angelis via grass-psc (<
grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org>) escribió:

> Thanks Anna and Vaclav for your comments.
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> I believe the principles used to make the list are neat and sound. I do
> not see the need to complicate things more in the future.
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> Anna, I agree, someone that may be contributed a little long ago may not
> be interested or involved in the project today. How large the proportion
> was? I do not know for sure but from the numbers I estimate it in the order
> of 60, or 40% of the list.
>
> Vaclav, I agree, although the list is not secret its only appropriate to
> talk publicly in terms of aggregates. Also all votes are encrypted: neither
> the CRO nor anyone can see who voted for whom.
>
> As I wrote before, I see no major problems. My thoughts about improvements
> are mostly within the CRO role, like making communication more clear on how
> to opt out or the times for start of the election, etc.
>
> We now have a new PSC full with competent and energic people. As Vero
> worte, let's keep growing GRASS !
>
> All good :-)
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> Hernán
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> Den 2024-10-30 kl. 15:41, skrev Vaclav Petras:
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> I'm also happy with the elections and grateful to all who made it happen,
> especially Hernán, but Vero, those who nominated, the candidates, and
> voters too. However, I do have things I would like to be different next
> time, so I'm happy to keep discussing. As far as the eligible voters:
>
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 at 09:45, Anna Petrášová via grass-psc <
> grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 6:31 AM Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS
>> election 2024 via grass-psc <grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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>>> 2) The best part is that we had a list of voters right at the
>>> start, which Vero had compiled in good time using very clear criteria for
>>> who
>>> was eligible.
>>>
>>
>> The criteria we set up - contribution to a grass repo - will
>> necessarily include people who have no motivation to vote, they contributed
>> either a long time ago, just once, they are not familiar with the community
>> etc. So we can't expect all these contributors to vote. How large portion
>> would fall into this group, I don't know.
>>
>
> Importantly, the contributions are not from all history. Vero please
> correct me if I'm wrong, but they are only since the last PSC election. Or
> the last two? I remember the discussion about that, but not the exact
> result. Anyway, this is trying to exclude the inactive contributors, but it
> does include the one-time contributors which is to include the non-frequent
> contributors.
>
> We ended up extending the list to the two last PSC mandates, because only
one yielded less than 100 people and left out relevant members of the
community that for different reasons were not that active in the last
years.


> That said, I don't think we have a better way to create the voters list
>> unless we go with something much more complicated (like charter memebers).
>> Is the list of people who voted available? It could be interesting to
>> analyze it.
>>
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> I think there might be different expectations on what is private besides
> who you voted for. However, CRO has the information already and doing
> aggregate statistics or statements to share publicly or privately with PSC
> is within expected parameters I would say.
>
> Agree, some aggregate stats would be interesting to see and analyse. I do
also agree with Moritz that the "week off for reflection" might be skipped
next time, it seems to dilute people's attention...

Thanks again everyone!!
Vero
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