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

[Moritz Lennert]

Dear all,

Many thanks to Hernán De Angelis who has agreed to serve as CRO !

We will put things in place with him to launch the entire process as soon as possible.

Moritz

Am 10. Dezember 2020 09:14:55 MEZ schrieb Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
>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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