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

[Hernán De Angelis]

Looking forward to do my best as CRO and give back to this community :-)

/H.

On 2020-12-11 10:58, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> 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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