[Qgis-psc] [vote] PSC seat count

[Andreas Neumann]

Ah - sorry. I really misunderstood you.

So you want 7 regular PSC members? Do you have a specific task in mind 
for the additional PSC member?

I am ok with adding one new member, I would welcome that.

+1 from Andreas

Greetings,
Andreas

Am 23.03.20 um 17:32 schrieb Marco Bernasocchi:
>
> 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 
>> <mailto: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
>>
>>     QGIS.org Co-chair
>>     http://berna.io
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>>
>> --
>> Andreas Neumann
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> Marco Bernasocchi
>
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