[Qgis-psc] Voting for grants

[Saber Razmjooei]

Hi Even,

People can vote for other proposals except not from theirs and their
organisation. Looking through previous years voting, it would be better to
persuade more active participation especially from QGIS User Group. This
can be done:
- Better communicating the proposals and asking them to circulate it
through their users: blog posts, social media, etc
- If they fail to vote on X number of occasions, they will be removed as a
voting member for Y years/until a formal request....

Doing so, it will ensure  a more diverse and democratic way of selecting
proposals.
I understand it will add overhead and more bureaucracy and be happy to help
if needed.

Kind regards
Saber



On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 18:14, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> On vendredi 29 mai 2020 17:46:15 CEST Saber Razmjooei wrote:
>
> > Dear PSC,
>
> >
>
> > Are there any criteria in-place when voting for grants? I suggest to
> have a
>
> > similar approach Marco recommended for handling votes for core members.
>
> > Specifically, to keep the voting fair and unbiased, it will be good for
>
> > members of the same organization to abstain from voting for their
>
> > colleagues' proposal.
>
>
>
> And what about for people with voting rights having themselves submitted
> one or several proposals: should they refrain from voting at all ? or
> shouldn't they be able to vote for their own proposals ?
>
>
>
> If I try to find an equivalent outside of QGIS context, here in France we
> have very small villages (several tens of people at most), and there are
> still elections to elect the municipal council: nothing prevent the
> candidates from voting for themselves and their co-listers. Actually, if
> they didn't, there would be very few votes!
>
>
>
> The only solution to limit bias would be to extend significantly the size
> of the voting body, so that people voting for their own proposal or their
> colleagues' has no significant impact.
>
>
>
> Actually, preventing people from an organization to vote for their
> colleagues' proposal could introduce bias. If that proposal is "in a
> objective way" a good one, not being able to vote for it and being obliged
> to select "inferior" proposals could cause a undesired bias in the results,
> given the modest size of the voting body.
>
>
>
> I'd say keep the rules simple and trust people good judgmenent.
>
>
>
> Even
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>
>
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