PSC Election 2024

PSC Election 2024

Call for election

The PSC election 2024 starts on 2024-09-16 and ends on 2024-10-26.

The new committee will be formed by 9 members, of which 5 are current members and 4 will be newly elected on this election. The seats open for election are those of: Helena Mitasova, Helmut Kudrnovsky, Martin Landa and Michael Barton.

This is in accordance with the current PSC chair and the planning decided in light of the experiences in previous elections.

1. The process

The election process is split essentially in two phases: 1) the Nomination and 2) the Voting. Final actions are announcing the results and officially forming the new PSC, which will consist of 9 members, 5 already sitting and 4 newly elected.

1.1 Nominations

During the Nomination phase, any member of the GRASS-GIS community, can nominate any community member for being a candidate for the PSC.

Current PSC members are to be nominated for re-election in the same way by the community as possible new candidates.

To set a nomination in motion, an e-mail should be directed to the Chief Return Officer (CRO - cro.grass at osgeo.org) including name, contact e-mail and shortly why a person is recommended as a PSC member.

The CRO will then contact the recommended person asking for confirmation. The nominated person has to accept the candidacy for the PSC and will be asked to write a few lines stating what she/he wants to achieve as part of it.

A nomination and its acceptance are required to be sent directly to the CRO in private. Following confirmation, it is the CRO's task to officially announce a nomination.

1.2 Voting

The CRO will ensure to invite all eligible voters.

Eligible voters are all people who:

• have one or more merged pull requests in any of grass, grass-addons, grass-website, grass-promo repositories,
• participated of GRASS PSC and community events,
• have one or more merged pull requests in qgis/QGIS related to GRASS integration,
• have one or more merged pull requests in rsbivand/rgrass, or
• are registered and have translated for GRASS GIS in Weblate

A list of eligible voters has already been compiled on the basis of the criteria given above. The list can be found here

If you believe you meet the criteria but do not find your name in the list, please contact the CRO (cro.grass@osgeo.org) or make a pull request before September 15.

During the Voting period, eligible voters, can vote their preferred candidate(s) via an on-line tool which will protect privacy.

Each voter can vote one time. However, there is no limit as to how many, among the candidates, a voter can select.

Preparation of the list of nominees for the [wiki:PSC] election 2024

List of nominees

Candidate's name	Country	Nominated by	Link to announcement	Link to candidate statement
NNN	NNN	NNN	NNN	NNN

Results

Voting result (ranking, name, number of votes):

{{{

1. NNNN        	 XX

}}}

The new GRASS GIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) is composed of **9** members, of which 4 are newly elected (ranking, name, number of votes):

{{{

1. NNNN        	 XX

}}}

Details

• Number of eligible voters: XXX
• Cast votes: YY

OSGeo !LimeSurvey voting system

 This is going to be updated soon
 * Uploaded eligible voters file xxx bytes, at DD MM YYYY: done processing: NNN voters loaded
 * Trustee fingerprint and Audit information

Technicalities

The entire election process is encrypted. The CRO, being the administrator of this "private" election, can only verify which of the invited members did vote.

• The election URL: [*** coming soon ***]

Ballots

More information at:

OSGeo LimeSurvey -- to be published when election is finished

Election tally

More information at:

OSGeo LimeSurvey - to be published when election is finished