[Qgis-psc] DRAFT: Extension to community member voting deadline and clarifications

Tue Jul 19 00:01:54 PDT 2016

Hi PSC,

I was just wondering what was the current state of community members
voting. I may have missed it but are there some results somewhere? Or was
the process abandoned?

Regards,
Harrissou

Le 12 mai 2016 00:44, "Tim Sutton" <tim at kartoza.com> a écrit :

> Hi
>
> On 11 May 2016, at 23:35, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Tim, thanks for your answers and constant efforts to improve the process.
> Questions:
> Should I have the agreement of a nominee before nominating him/her or
> would this be checked at the end of the process if he/she is in top10? the
> latter will surely be better, imho.
>
>
> Yes indeed it would be better. I think we can do this at the point of
> selection though - just nominate who you like and if one of the top ten is
> not available we will just take the next person in the list. Again I just
> want to keep things simple and there will be long lag times while we wait
> for people to respond to nomination approval emails from individuals.
>
> Is the http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/settings/members page
> supposed to be accessible to anybody? I do not have access (403) but hope
> the concerned people have it.
>
>
> Ok well spotted thanks. Here is the list:
>
> 4everskiff
> Alessandro Pasotti
> Alexander Bruy
> Etienne Tourigny
> Gary Sherman Manager
> Giovanni Manghi
> Giuseppe Sucameli
> Jürgen Fischer
> Larry Shaffer
> Marco Hugentobler
> Martin Dobias
> Matthias Kuhn
> Médéric RIBREUX
> Paolo Cavallini
> Radim Blazek
> Raymond Nijssen
> Richard Duivenvoorde
> Saber Razmjooei
> Tim Sutton
>
> I will add this to the email that I send out.
>
>
> There's a minor typo issue: "Redline" instead of “Redmine"
>
>
> Thanks - it is my spell checker - it has no idea what Redmine is :-) I
> will fix it.
>
> I had some off list feedback from Vincent too asking for the timeline to
> be longer - I will make the deadline end of next week then since it seems
> Europe was on holiday last week… That does mean that we will have a very
> compressed time for voting for the board etc. but I think we will manage.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> Regards...
>
> 2016-05-11 23:31 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 12 May 2016 at 07:08, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Ok sorry for the noise all but here is one more amendment because I have
>> > just been revising  the nominations so far and we don’t have enough
>> unique
>> > nominations so I am going to take on board Nyall’s proposal that each
>> person
>> > can nominate up to 10 individuals. Could I also call on the PSC to make
>> > their nominations as I fear we do not have enough participation
>> otherwise.
>>
>> Thanks Tim! I think this is a good idea that will likely result in a
>> better representation for final community members.
>>
>> Nyall
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Updated draft follows:
>> >
>> > -----------------------------------Hi all
>> >
>> > Firstly my apologies if things are not all as clear as they should be
>> for
>> > the community voting member nomination process - please bear in mind
>> that we
>> > are bootstrapping the QGIS.org <http://qgis.org> and the governance of
>> it and we can certainly
>> > expect some teething troubles along the way. I would like to respond to
>> some
>> > of the queries that have been raised and extend the deadline for voting
>> to
>> > accommodate those who still have doubts. I am going to write mainly in
>> > bullet points to keep things as clear as possible.
>> >
>> > Eligibility to nominate:
>> > =================
>> >
>> > * all people with commit rights to any official QGIS repository on
>> GitHub :
>> > https://github.com/orgs/qgis/people (note that page is paginated so
>> check
>> > the subsequent pages if you are not on the first page)
>> > * language maintainers and admins for any officially translated
>> language on
>> > transifex for any of these transifex projects: QGIS Desktop, QGIS
>> > Documentation, QGIS Website - https://www.transifex.com/qgis/
>> > * any Redline user with ‘manager’ status in this list
>> > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/settings/members
>> >
>> >
>> > Nomination process:
>> > ================
>> >
>> > * if you fall into any of the above groups you can nominate UP TO TEN
>> > persons who you consider to be a good candidate to be a QGIS Community
>> > Voting member
>> > * once all of the nominations are in, we will count the nominations and
>> > elect the community voting members based on the number of votes they
>> have
>> > received.
>> > * in the event of a tie breaker (e.g. the number of nominees exceeds 11
>> > nominees with the lowest number of votes have the same amount of votes
>> so we
>> > cannot determine the ’top eleven’), we will provide an opportunity to do
>> > another round of nominations for the contested places.
>> > * Make your nomination using this form: http://goo.gl/forms/vkoYZkE03C
>> > * PSC members may also participate in the nomination process but are not
>> > eligible for nomination
>> > * I encourage you to be diverse in your nominations - QGIS aspires to
>> be a
>> > welcoming community to people from all walks of life and we do not
>> > discriminate based on coders, non-coders, religion, race, gender, sexual
>> > orientation, geographic community etc. See our diversity statement:
>> >
>> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/diversitystatement.html
>> > and code of conduct:
>> >
>> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/codeofconduct/codeofconduct.html
>> > * The deadline for nominations has been extended until Midnight CET,
>> Friday
>> > 13 May 2016
>> >
>> > User groups:
>> > ============
>> >
>> > * User groups may replace their voting member at any time
>> > * These members are NOT eligible to elect the community voting members
>> > unless they are also in one of the groups listed above in ‘eligibility
>> to
>> > nominate'
>> > * The following representatives of user groups will automatically be
>> assumed
>> > to be the user group voting member representatives:
>> >
>> > Contact person QGIS User Group name
>> > ——————————————————————————————————
>> > 1 Brent Wood NIWA QGIS USer Group
>> > 2 Anibal Alarcon Lima Perú QGIS User Group
>> > 3 Paolo Cavallini Gruppo degli utenti italiani di QGIS
>> > 4 Lene Fischer QGIS Brugergruppe Danmark
>> > 5 Ross McDonald QGIS UK - Scottish User Group
>> > 6 simon miles England
>> > 7 João Gaspar QGIS Portugal
>> > 8 Kevin Williams Wales (Cymru)
>> > 9 Thomas Schüttenberg QGIS Anwendergruppe Deutschland e.V. (QGIS-DE
>> e.V.)
>> > 10 Andreas Neumann QGIS User Group Switzerland
>> > 11 Milena Nowotarska Polska Grupa Użytkowników QGIS
>> >
>> > What happens next?
>> > ================
>> >
>> > * After the nomination process for the QGIS Community Voting members
>> there
>> > will be 23 voting members consisting of:
>> >   * 11 User group voting members
>> >   * 11 Community voting members
>> >   * 1 OSGEO board voting member
>> > * The voting members will elect the board
>> > * All current PSC members will (unless they request otherwise) be
>> candidates
>> > for election to the board
>> > * Voting members may nominate additional candidates for the board
>> election
>> > * The candidates can be ANY QGIS community member (i.e. not only those
>> > identified in the eligibility to nominate section above)
>> >
>> > * The PSC currently consists of
>> >    * 1 Tim Sutton (Chair),
>> >    * 2 Paolo Cavallini (Vice chair),
>> >    * 3 Otto Dassau
>> >    * 4 Marco Hugentobler
>> >    * 5 Anita Graser
>> >    * 6 Andreas Neumann (treasurer)
>> >    * 7 Richard Duivenvoorde
>> >    * 8 Paolo Cavallini
>> >    * 9 Jürgen Fischer
>> >    * 10 Gary Sherman (project founder, honorary member for life)
>> >
>> > * The voting members will elect the Board consisting of 9 elected
>> members +
>> > Gary Sherman by electronic vote
>> > * The Board, when elected, will elect a chairman
>> > * We will announce the election results at the AGM meeting in Girona to
>> be
>> > held May 26 at the end of this track:
>> >
>> http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/en/international-qgis-user-and-developer-conference/conferencia-qgis/
>> > (details still pending on that page)
>> >
>> > * The voting members will be asked to approve the QGIS.org
>> <http://qgis.org> budget each year
>> > (by electronic vote)
>> > * The voting members will be asked to approve the project status report
>> from
>> > the chair each year (by electronic vote)
>> > * The voting members will be asked to vote on board member elections
>> > * Voting members will NOT be required to attend meetings in-person in
>> order
>> > to vote, but will be expected to vote and stay informed about the QGIS
>> > project in order to make a meaningful vote.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > This is all rather complicated...
>> > =======================
>> >
>> > Yes I know and I can only apologise for that! We are trying to keep
>> things
>> > as simple as possible whilst still keeping it democratic and fair. Its
>> not
>> > easy to balance these things and we expect to iteratively improve and
>> refine
>> > the process over time. As an organisation there are various statutory
>> > requirements we need to adhere to and various procedural requirements
>> that
>> > we need to follow if we are to change our voting system etc. I expect
>> that
>> > we will do a revision to the above process based on your (constructive)
>> > feedback, but we need to limit these amendments to as few as possible
>> > because it is a high administrative overhead to deal with changes to the
>> > QGIS.org <http://qgis.org> statutes.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please feel free to contact me if you have any queries, I will try to
>> help /
>> > address your concerns
>> >
>> > With thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Tim Sutton
>> > QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
>> > tim at qgis.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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