Chair Motion

[Markus Neteler-2]

Dear PSC,

I vote with +0 for being the PSC chair.

the current state of the Chair motion is (kind of funny that I post that :-):

 * Michael Barton +1
 * Dylan Baudette +1
 * Hamish Bowman: nominated me
 * Massimiliano Cannata +1
 * Brad Douglas +1
 * Scott Mitchell +1
 * Markus Neteler +0
 * Maciej Sieczka +1

Missing:
 * Paul Kelly ?
 * Helena Mitasova ?

Markus

[HamishB]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> Dear PSC,
>
> I vote with +0 for being the PSC chair.
>
> the current state of the Chair motion is (kind of funny that I post
> that :-):

I have been collecting a tally of the votes locally.
I was going to post this tonight, you beat me to it!

>  * Michael Barton +1
>  * Dylan Baudette +1
>  * Hamish Bowman: nominated me
>  * Massimiliano Cannata +1
>  * Brad Douglas +1
>  * Scott Mitchell +1
>  * Markus Neteler +0
>  * Maciej Sieczka +1
>
> Missing:
>  * Paul Kelly ?
>  * Helena Mitasova ?

10 members, 6 needed to pass a simple majority.


- Helena voted +1 in a private email.
- I voted +1 locally.
- No response from Paul yet.


With 8/10 in favour (so far) Markus wins, but it would be nice to hear
from everyone.


Hamish

[Helena Mitasova]

well, I voted and asked Hamish to collect the votes because he called
the vote and so that you don't do it. Apparently that email got lost  
somewhere
(we have had a major upgrade on mailserver with erratic service for few
days - hopefully it works now).

so it is +1 from me to make it complete,

Helena


Helena Mitasova
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
Raleigh NC 27695
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/



On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> Dear PSC,
>
> I vote with +0 for being the PSC chair.
>
> the current state of the Chair motion is (kind of funny that I post  
> that :-):
>
> * Michael Barton +1
> * Dylan Baudette +1
> * Hamish Bowman: nominated me
> * Massimiliano Cannata +1
> * Brad Douglas +1
> * Scott Mitchell +1
> * Markus Neteler +0
> * Maciej Sieczka +1
>
> Missing:
> * Paul Kelly ?
> * Helena Mitasova ?
>
> Markus
>
> _______________________________________________
> grass-psc mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc

[Michael Barton]

On 12/6/06 7:09 AM, "Helena Mitasova" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> well, I voted and asked Hamish to collect the votes because he called
> the vote and so that you don't do it. Apparently that email got lost
> somewhere
> (we have had a major upgrade on mailserver with erratic service for few
> days - hopefully it works now).
>
> so it is +1 from me to make it complete,
>

Can  we say "by acclamation!" ?

Michael


__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: [phone]
fax: [phone]
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton 

[HamishB]

In case there was any doubt, the PSC overwhelmingly asks Markus to be
the PSC chair:

vote: Markus for Chair.
--------------------------
Hamish +1
Michael +1
Helena +1
Brad +1
Massimiliano +1
Dylan +1
Scott +1
Maciek +1
Markus +0
Paul yes


everyone reporting in, vote closed. yay Markus.

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I like Frank's idea that the person calling the vote does the work to
tally the result. If I could extend that, they'd report the result the
the list and the chair would bless & announce it to grass-dev.


WRT Markus's work load:

Sheparding in new modules etc takes a very strong knowledge of the code,
history, good C, the GRASS libraries, etc. (eg what's in the other 300+
modules and countless former GRASS 4/5 modules) This ends up being a
very short list of people to draw from. It, along with auditing
modifications to the libraries, is probably the most important task in
the project IMO. Maybe Frank can relate some GDAL/PROJ wisdom here.

To help spread the load, hopefully other devels can adopt a handful of
modules each (ie the ones they use/know about), and act as liaisons for
the modules' external developers.


On the other hand, (from my uninformed position) committing new
translations seems like something that any of us could do and not
requiring the breadth of experience. If that is so, maybe we could move
that job to someone else as an easy way to lessen what we ask of Markus.
(perhaps a european type who speaks lots of languages :)
Or maybe he enjoys that job?

Same goes for the website, lots of people can help there. I think the
wiki is helping.

Markus: It would help if you could make a list of jobs you'd rather were
passed on to others?



Hamish