[Qgis-psc] DRAFT: Extension to community member voting deadline and clarifications
Tim Sutton
tim at kartoza.com
Sat Jul 23 04:28:27 PDT 2016
Hi Junior
I am going to send out an email this week coming giving an update. The plan is to open the nominations for another short window of time agains, then hold a vote from all committers to decide which of the nominees actually get community voter rights.
Regards
Tim
> On 19 Jul 2016, at 2:01 PM, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> a écrit :
> Hi
>
>> On 11 May 2016, at 23:35, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com <mailto: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 <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 <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>>:
>> On 12 May 2016 at 07:08, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org <mailto: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 <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/ <https://www.transifex.com/qgis/>
>> > * any Redline user with ‘manager’ status in this list
>> > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/settings/members <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 <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 <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 <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/ <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 <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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