[QGIS-Developer] Call For Community Voting members ballot

[Stefanos Natsis]

Hi Marco, lists

While I trust German and the Colombian user group's democratic procedures
for delivering a vote to their representative, I deeply believe that having
the same person as both a country voting member and a community voting
member is a step in the wrong direction.
It defeats the purpose of the Community Voting Members concept, which is to
bring in more people to the QGIS commons and have a diverse pool of voters
in the general meeting.
Imagine the case where all country user groups had the same person as both
a representative and a community voting member. In addition to that, one
could also be OSGEO voting member and Honorary voting member too, casting a
total of 4 votes! In theory one could have the integrity to cast four
independent votes, but it would surely not look good to the public and we
should protect the project from such scenarios.

I therefore suggest that the PSC amends the Charter [0], explicitly making
all four types of voting members as mutually exclusive positions, similar
to how voting member and PSC positions are already mutually exclusive.

I am sure the Colombian, French and Swiss user groups have plenty of
members that can step up to replace their representatives.

I would love to read others' opinions on the matter!

Best,
Stefanos


[0] https://qgis.org/community/foundation/charter/

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 18:45, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hey Stefanos,
> That is correct, German is already listed as the *representative* of the
> user group Colombia.
> The UG Colombia vote is obviously not his vote but the vote of the
> Colombian user group.
>
> That means that he will be listed twice as we already have for other
> members loke Harrissou and France.
>
> Cheers Marco
>
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, 02:12 Stefanos Natsis, <uclaros at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Marco,
>> and thank you to those taking the time to vote; participating in commons
>> is an important part of the QGIS community.
>>
>> I have a question regarding the ballot, though:
>> The new QGIS website says Germán is already a voting member as a
>> representative of the Colombian user group.
>> Is the site not up to date? Was the user group disbanded (I can see they
>> lost their registered domain)?
>>
>> Best
>> Stefanos
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 23:03, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Community,
>>> Thanks for taking the time to respond to the community member vote.
>>> The vote closed last week, and I want to share the unofficial results.
>>>
>>> As stated, we had four slots up for elections and five candidates.
>>>
>>> We had 20 votes with the following results
>>>
>>> Germán Carrillo 19
>>> Stefanos Natsis 16
>>> Isabel Kiefer 16
>>> Damiano Lombardi 15
>>> Saber Razmjooei 14
>>>
>>> I'm still waiting for a response from two voters I could not confirm as
>>> active QGIS contributors, so **these results still need to be
>>> considered unofficial**.
>>> If the voters were not confirmed as active, the only absolute difference
>>> would be that Damiano would have the same votes as Saber, and we would need
>>> to run a second round between them.
>>>
>>> In this sense, I would already heartfeltly welcome Germán, Stefanos, and
>>> Isabel to our voting members community. Thank you so much for all you do
>>> for the project!
>>>
>>> I'll follow up with the definitive results next week with the next steps
>>> needed.
>>>
>>> Cheers Marco
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 00:35, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear QGIS Community
>>>>
>>>> We invite you to elect your favourite community voting members.
>>>> One community voting member is appointed in tandem with each QGIS
>>>> Country User Group Voting Member.
>>>>
>>>> Due to the new usergroups, 4 Community member spot are be up for
>>>> election.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The purpose of the voting members is to elect the PSC and, where
>>>> necessary, collectively make decisions related to QGIS governance.
>>>>
>>>> Please read the instructions carefully and establish your eligibility
>>>> to vote, which I repeat here for your convenience:
>>>> "Only community members with commit rights to an official QGIS git
>>>> repository or with write access in transifex are eligible to vote nominees”
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Voting will close on Friday 25 October 2024 23:59UTC.
>>>> The voting form is here:
>>>> https://forms.gle/64zomCdCtccHQqfp8
>>>>
>>>> If you have any questions about the voting process, please do not
>>>> hesitate to contact me
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Marco
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marco Bernasocchi
>>>>
>>>> QGIS.org Chair
>>>> OPENGIS.ch CEO
>>>> http://berna.io
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Marco Bernasocchi
>>>
>>> QGIS.org Chair
>>> OPENGIS.ch CEO
>>> http://berna.io
>>>
>>
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