[GRASS-user] Comment regarding PSC election

[Nikos Alexandris]

Dear all


on-sight, as Nikos, I share Vero's skepsis, concerns and feelings.  I
support that there is still time to re-consider and, given we have a
safe voting system available, community members should be eligible to vote.


As CRO, trying not to confuse my roles (community member vs. CRO), I
tried to clearly adhere to the "any community member can participate"
principle (as it can be extracted from the first announcement).

However, the result of the long discussion in the grass-psc mailing
list, had to be adopted.  A discussion which I simply did not read
early, before the first announcement.


What now?

As CRO, I propose the following, so as to not fall in a new open-ended
discussion (while we should also mind that the election process started and
the nomination phase is on-going):

i) if the lists receive publicly more supporters of Vero's view, and the
majority of current psc members are ok with it, we should open the
voting eligibility to everyone with an account at grass-user
or grass-dev.

ii) allow for community members, subscribed to grass-user or grass-dev,
to send directly to the CRO a request for voting permission.  The CRO
will add the requested name and e-mail address to the list of voters.


(
There is still time before the voting phase!
The voting will take place with an invitation via e-mail, through
Helios' safe platform. [0]
)

iii) keep this discussion "alive" for the next election and move on with
the current process as is, so as to not endanger the natural flow of the current
election.


Best regards, Nikos or/and GRASS-GIS' CRO.
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[0] https://vote.heliosvoting.org/privacy



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* Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com> [2016-07-25 19:26:53 +0200]:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I just wanted to make a comment regarding the ongoing PSC election.
>
>I got to know how the whole process works only the past days and I must say
>I'm rather disappointed. I was happy to see that also users could vote as
>Nikos stated in his first email, but then that info was rectified. I read
>the emails of grass-psc discussing the matter and also the wiki.
>
>This is my personal opinion and no more than that, but I just think it is a
>bit unfair that for not having svn writing access I'm not able to vote. I
>don't understand how, as user, I'm entitled to nominate a person for PSC,
>but then, I cannot vote. I mean, there are several people with writing
>access that have remained inactive for a long time (no contributions to
>svn, no answering emails, no commenting on tickets or whatsoever), and
>IMHO, while not a developer, I've been pretty active the past 2-3 years.
>This is the first time I don't see/feel the community spirit that I've
>always praised GRASS for and that was one of the main reasons why I
>involved myself in it and spread the love for the project everywhere I
>went... and that's sad from my point of view.
>
>Anyway, sorry to bother with this (maybe) biased opinion/feeling, I just
>needed to express it. Perhaps in the future, voting could be optional for
>users, dunno...
>
>Thanks so much to all of you for making GRASS GIS the great software it is
>:)
>
>Best,
>Vero