[Qgis-psc] Proposal: mailing list for voting members

[Paolo Cavallini]

Thanks Tim for your thoughts. Let's discuss these details on the
upcoming PSC meeting.
Cheers.

On 07/03/19 09:48, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> On 07 Mar 2019, at 10:42, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
>> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tim, all,
>>
>> On 06/03/19 16:36, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> 1) Signing up members to a list without their agreement is not good so
>>> you need to make it a prerequisite of being a voting member that they
>>> join the list and communicate it to all involved.
>>
>> We can send a first email, saying if they don't want to be in the ML
>> they can remove themselves. Unclear to me, however, how one could
>> participate to an assosiation refusing to use its decision tools.
> 
> Yeah - that is why I was suggesting to make it a prerequisite to be part
> of the mailing list, first informing them, removing voting members who
> do not agree, electing new ones in their place who do agree etc.
> 
>>
>>> 2) The members come and go quite a bit so you will have some work to do
>>> to keep the list current, removing non active members and adding new
>>> recruits
>>
>> I propose to use the ML as central repo for the list. I find it easier
>> to manage than a GDoc.
> 
> Ok there is also the web site where the names (but not emails) of
> members are listed which needs to be maintained.
> 
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html#qgis-usergroups
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>> 3) I find generally sending people a direct mail gets better
>>> responsiveness than sending them something on a list, so be prepared for
>>> potentially lower voting turnouts (or at least monitor it after you set
>>> it up to make sure that people are still responsive).
>>
>> This could be an issue, but it IMHO less important than the risk of
>> forgetting to send an email to one of the members. Having public
>> archives is a biig advantage for transparency IMHO.
> 
> 
> I don’t know if it should be public - you will be sending out links for
> voting forms on the list. Anyone watching the archives could then join
> in the vote unless you come up with a system to make sure the forms are
> only usable by registered members. Or if you send the voting forms
> direct from google forms (which is what I did) then you don’t need a ML
> but are back in the situation of needing to manage the list in a google
> doc or similar.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
>>
>>> Other than those thoughts, +1 from me.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -- 
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://www.faunalia.eu>
>> QGIS.ORG <http://QGIS.ORG> Chair:
>> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/
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