= PSC Election 2016 =

== Tentative schedule ==

* May 2016: pre-announcment of [[wiki:PSC|PSC]] elections (see this [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/2016-May/001477.html email]). TODO:
 * identify members who do not stand for election
 * identify inactive members (here the Geoserver PSC has some useful [http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/developer/policies/psc.html#stepping-down rules])
 * ~~assign free'd up slots to election~~ The entire PSC will be dissolved this time.
* July 2016: 
 * select a CRO (Chief Returning Officer) to run the elections. The CRO is not eligible for election to the PSC while serving as CRO.
 * CRO announces officially the PSC election schedule.
 * XX July 2016, 12:00pm UTC: nomination of new PSC members possible by GRASS GIS community along with a motivation for this nomination.
* August 2016:
 * voting using online form. Community members eligible to vote will receive an email invitation for this; The community members eligible to vote are
   * members with write access to any official and active [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/ GRASS GIS SVN repository] (core, addons, sandbox, promo)
   * translators listed in [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/translators.csv translators.csv]
 * CRO communicates the new PSC members.
 * PSC elects chair.

== Call for election == 

TBD

=== Proposals ===

Proposal 1:

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> So, to summarize, my proposal would be:
>
> - Election of the entire PSC every three years
> - All people with SVN access have the right to vote
> - Elections are announced on grass-dev and grass-user with a clear
> definition of procedure:
>         - Anyone (or anyone with voting right ?) can nominate someone during
> a period of a few (4?) weeks
>         - Possibly: those who are already in the PSC and stand for elections
> again do not need a nomination / can nominate themselves ?
>         - Voting during 1 week
>         - The ten candidates with the most votes make up the new PSC
>
> Moritz
== List of nominees for the [wiki:PSC] election ==

'''Any community member is eligible to propose a new PSC member candidate.'''

To submit a PSC member nomination: 
 * Confirm with the nominated person first.
 * Send the nomination email to the PSC mailing list - [https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org] (you need to be subscribed) - and also copy/fwd this  nomination email to the GRASS user list - [[https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user grass-user@lists.osgeo.org] - so that the community remains informed.
 * Update the table below.

Deadline: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2016&month=06&day=16&hour=12&min=0&sec=0 Thursday, 16 June 2016, 12:00 UTC]

The list of nominees:

||'''Candidate's name'''||'''Country'''||From: '''Your name (Nominator)'''[[BR]]I'd like to nominate XXX
|| name_here || country_here || From: ... [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/XXXX]
|| ... || ... || From: ... [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-psc/XXXX]

== Results ==

TDB