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

Wed May 11 15:44:49 PDT 2016

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 <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 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 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 <mailto:tim at qgis.org>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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