[Qgis-psc] Next meeting and some thoughts on our approach to project governance

[Anita Graser]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
> I am proposing to add a new item on the agenda which is a 3 minute per
person
> round table update​ [...]
​> ​
It will be IMHO much better if we could step
​> ​
back a bit and rather use the PSC meeting as a platform to identify what
decisions
​> ​
need to be made, then delegate those decisions to our members.

​+1 I think these changes ​could help make us more efficient.

​> I was wondering if we could extend this idea out away from purely
developer
> focussed grants to cover other areas​

​+1 imho there is no reason to limit ourselves to development only. ​I even
think that dev and user documentation lends itself to this approach even
more than development.


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:
>
​
There are
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potentially more people who can contribute to documentation, UI and
graphics work,
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community work, marketing, website, project management, etc. than there are
​> ​
talented core developers who have a good overview of the whole code base.

​Andreas, you kind of contradict yourself - at least regarding UI/UX - when
you later (correctly) state:

> good UI people are quite expensive

Judging from the fact that nobody is really wearing the UI/UX hat, but we
have multiple core devs, I'd have to conclude that U​X people are rarer.
You also need to be a decent developer and build QGIS yourself to do any UI
work yourself.

Similarly, there are much fewer people working on the website and other
infrastructure than on new features or code in general. (Even though I
guess we all agree that both could use more love.)


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:
> prefer a more stable community driven QGIS over a feature convoluted
sponsored QGIS.

+1 this sums it up really well in my opinion.

​I don't want to see the community reduced to being cheap helper monkeys
that keep everything running while some companies do the glamorous work of
implementing new features.

Best wishes,
Anita​
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