[Qgis-psc] Election dates

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 15 Feb 2018, at 11:48, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What about duration? in this way chair and PSC duration would be disaligned? 


I dont think there is anyway to prevent this - if someone leaves the board / PSC before their term completes we can either:

A) keep that place open unoccupied until the next scheduled election (might be a good solution)
B) elect a replacement but their term stays aligned to the two year cycle (like happens in my country when we try to get rid of our president every now and then, the party selects a new president who stays in office until the next election cycle)
C) just keep track of each incoming member and schedule a vote when their term ends

Maybe A is the simplest - we should try to keep the administration overhead of the board low and simple as we are all just volunteers trying to do this amongst a lot of other things competing for our head space. Anyway I dont think out statues specifically cater for this. Perhaps we should figure out the ideal way to deal with this and then propose an amendment to the charter to cater for this in the coming AGM.

Regards

Tim


> 
> cheers
> 
> Luigi Pirelli
> 
> ps. IMHO this should be a good democracy sign
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> On Wednesday, 14 February 2018, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On 14 February 2018 at 07:33, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi PSC
> >
> > Thomas Schüttenberg just brought to my attention that the actual elapsed time since our first Board elections is only 14 months ago:
> >
> > > I just tried to translate your call for PSC nominations and wondered if the term is already over. The last election was in december 2016 which was only 14 month ago. The statutes refere to a two year term. Do I miss something, or is this just because of the long period of forming the qgis.org <http://qgis.org/> association?
> >
> > In light of that I am proposing that we continue with the process of nominations as I would still like to stand down as chair over these coming months, but restrict the voting only to the vacant chair position. This will mean that our ‘number 2’ AGM form will be adjusted slightly to only accommodate
> >
> > A) the election of one new PSC member, and
> > B) the election of a new board chair
> >
> > Does this sound OK for everyone?
> 
> Just to clarify: this means that shortly we'll be voting for a new
> chair out of the existing PSC, and you'll continue on in PSC in a
> non-chair role until the 2 year term ends? Or have I totally misread
> this?
> 
> Nyall
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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
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