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

Wed May 11 14:35:14 PDT 2016

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.
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.
There's a minor typo issue: "Redline" instead of "Redmine"

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 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 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 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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