Hi Marco, lists While I trust German and the Colombian user group's democratic procedures for delivering a vote to their representative, I deeply believe that having the same person as both a country voting member and a community voting member is a step in the wrong direction. It defeats the purpose of the Community Voting Members concept, which is to bring in more people to the QGIS commons and have a diverse pool of voters in the general meeting. Imagine the case where all country user groups had the same person as both a representative and a community voting member. In addition to that, one could also be OSGEO voting member and Honorary voting member too, casting a total of 4 votes! In theory one could have the integrity to cast four independent votes, but it would surely not look good to the public and we should protect the project from such scenarios.
I therefore suggest that the PSC amends the Charter [0], explicitly making all four types of voting members as mutually exclusive positions, similar to how voting member and PSC positions are already mutually exclusive. I am sure the Colombian, French and Swiss user groups have plenty of members that can step up to replace their representatives. I would love to read others' opinions on the matter! Best, Stefanos [0] https://qgis.org/community/foundation/charter/ On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 at 18:45, Marco Bernasocchi <ma...@qgis.org> wrote: > Hey Stefanos, > That is correct, German is already listed as the *representative* of the > user group Colombia. > The UG Colombia vote is obviously not his vote but the vote of the > Colombian user group. > > That means that he will be listed twice as we already have for other > members loke Harrissou and France. > > Cheers Marco > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, 02:12 Stefanos Natsis, <ucla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you Marco, >> and thank you to those taking the time to vote; participating in commons >> is an important part of the QGIS community. >> >> I have a question regarding the ballot, though: >> The new QGIS website says Germán is already a voting member as a >> representative of the Colombian user group. >> Is the site not up to date? Was the user group disbanded (I can see they >> lost their registered domain)? >> >> Best >> Stefanos >> >> >> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 23:03, Marco Bernasocchi <ma...@qgis.org> wrote: >> >>> Dear Community, >>> Thanks for taking the time to respond to the community member vote. >>> The vote closed last week, and I want to share the unofficial results. >>> >>> As stated, we had four slots up for elections and five candidates. >>> >>> We had 20 votes with the following results >>> >>> Germán Carrillo 19 >>> Stefanos Natsis 16 >>> Isabel Kiefer 16 >>> Damiano Lombardi 15 >>> Saber Razmjooei 14 >>> >>> I'm still waiting for a response from two voters I could not confirm as >>> active QGIS contributors, so **these results still need to be >>> considered unofficial**. >>> If the voters were not confirmed as active, the only absolute difference >>> would be that Damiano would have the same votes as Saber, and we would need >>> to run a second round between them. >>> >>> In this sense, I would already heartfeltly welcome Germán, Stefanos, and >>> Isabel to our voting members community. Thank you so much for all you do >>> for the project! >>> >>> I'll follow up with the definitive results next week with the next steps >>> needed. >>> >>> Cheers Marco >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at 00:35, Marco Bernasocchi <ma...@qgis.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear QGIS Community >>>> >>>> We invite you to elect your favourite community voting members. >>>> One community voting member is appointed in tandem with each QGIS >>>> Country User Group Voting Member. >>>> >>>> Due to the new usergroups, 4 Community member spot are be up for >>>> election. >>>> >>>> >>>> The purpose of the voting members is to elect the PSC and, where >>>> necessary, collectively make decisions related to QGIS governance. >>>> >>>> Please read the instructions carefully and establish your eligibility >>>> to vote, which I repeat here for your convenience: >>>> "Only community members with commit rights to an official QGIS git >>>> repository or with write access in transifex are eligible to vote nominees” >>>> >>>> >>>> Voting will close on Friday 25 October 2024 23:59UTC. >>>> The voting form is here: >>>> https://forms.gle/64zomCdCtccHQqfp8 >>>> >>>> If you have any questions about the voting process, please do not >>>> hesitate to contact me >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Marco >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Marco Bernasocchi >>>> >>>> QGIS.org Chair >>>> OPENGIS.ch CEO >>>> http://berna.io >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Marco Bernasocchi >>> >>> QGIS.org Chair >>> OPENGIS.ch CEO >>> http://berna.io >>> >>
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