[Qgis-psc] Voting on revised charter

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Tim,

My assumption is that the PSC and board will most likely have some 
former members.

I don't think the past PSC members did such a bad job that they wouldn't 
be elected.

However, it is unfair not to give other people a chance to candidate for 
election.

Also, we already have some positions (like Yves and Lene) that are 
essential/important to us and who are not on the PSC (maybe the 
should/could be on the PSC though). In the unlikely case that none or 
only one or two of the former PSC members get elected, we could still 
mentor from outside of the PSC.

Andreas


Am 24.11.2016 um 12:24 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi
>
>> On 24 Nov 2016, at 1:06 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net 
>> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Regarding voting:
>>
>> We never really had a voting of the board in the past. It was kind of 
>> who was engaged and committed at the early or right times got into 
>> the PSC. We need to "correct" this.
>>
>> I think, this time we should start from a plain field - from zero 
>> (empty board). Everybody should have a chance to get on the PSC and 
>> on the board - not just existing members.
>>
>> We just have to define how many seats the PSC will have for the next 
>> period and give everybody a chance to be a candidate. The board is 
>> defined in the revised charter (if accepted) as being three people 
>> (chair, vice-chair, treasurer). That's clear.
>>
>> So we should put out a message and ask if there are interested 
>> candidates who want to run for a seat on the PSC and/or board.
>>
>> And we should define how many seats there are on the PSC.
>>
>> Would you agree with that?
>
> I think there is one downside with this. In the hypothetical situation 
> that non of us gets voted back into the board/PSC, there will be no 
> continuity between incoming and outgoing members. I agree that going 
> with a clean slate would be nice in some ways but then we would need 
> to agree to provide some mentoring to the incoming members (even just 
> for simple stuff like creating qgis.org <http://qgis.org> accounts 
> etc. showing them how we manage meetings, bank account access etc). 
> Did you have some idea how to deal with this in your clean slate scenario?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, we need to officially vote PSC members and the board, and 
>>>> give people a chance to be a candidate for PSC or the board.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. That is one sticky problem - we need to bootstrap who will be 
>>> first to go up for re-election. Its probably simplest if we just put 
>>> our name forward if we are happy to go up for re-election. I put my 
>>> own name forward to start the ball rolling. Gary is immune from 
>>> re-election so that means we need two other names put forward. We 
>>> can work on a first-to-reply basis so that we can avoid any 
>>> awkwardness. Those who don't put their names forward will be up for 
>>> re-election next year.
>>>
>>
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