[Qgis-psc] [vote] PSC seat count

[Andreas Neumann]

Didn't we do that already many months ago, when we asked for new candidates
as a replacement for Richard?

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 17:33, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> I probably didn't explain myself well,
>
> the statutes say
>
> > Prior to the election, the outgoing PSC determines the total number of
> seats of the incoming committee.
>
> So we do have to decide, what I'm suggesting is to not only fill Richard's
> vacant seat, but to add one more person. As you say "We can define how many
> people we want to have on the PSC". For that we need a PSC decision and
> that is what I wanted to vote on.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marco
> On 23.03.20 17:28, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> We don't need to vote on this. The honorary PSC members are * in addition
> * to the regular PSC members. They don't have an obligation to take part
> actively at the PSC if they don't want to. As such, we don't count them as
> "regular" PSC member, but they have the same rights as other PSC members.
>
> Also, nowhere in the charter is there a written number how many PSC
> members there should or need to be. Only the board (chair, vice-chair and
> treasurer) are listed as absolutely necessary. Everything else is at the
> discretion of the PSC and not defined in the charter. We can define how
> many people we want to have on the PSC and we don't need to vote on it. To
> me it was always clear that we should replace Richard after he decided to
> resign.
>
> Thanks and greetings,
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 17:17, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi PSC, I was checking the statuses to double check all was good for AGM
>> and I noticed that they say
>>
>> > Prior to the election, the outgoing PSC determines the total number of
>> seats of the incoming committee.
>>
>> Currently we are 5 active members, one vacant position and 2 honorary
>> members. Most of the time we are 6 at the PSC meetings because we are
>> "abusing" Tim's kindness and basically pulled him 100% back into operative
>> work since we've been stretched pretty thin in doing all that needs to be
>> done.
>>
>> we have great candidates ready to help so I suggest adding one seat to
>> the PSC so to have 7 members plus 2 Honorary members and of course keep on
>> "abusing" Tim's kindness for him to be at the meeting but give him less
>> TODOs :).
>>
>> ======= Vote to add one seat to the PSC to a total of 7 active members.
>>
>> +1 Marco
>>
>> Ciao
>>
>> --
>> Marco Bernasocchi
>>
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> Andreas Neumann
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>
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> Marco Bernasocchi
>
> QGIS.org Co-chairhttp://berna.io
>
>

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Andreas Neumann
QGIS.ORG board member (treasurer)
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