[maemo-community] Community council elections

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
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> I am less sure about this one.  I have a slight fear that fewer than 5 people
> will volunteer and so we may find anyone who volunteers gets elected by
> default!

If fewer than 5 people stand, only 3 get elected. If fewer than 3
candidates stand, none get elected and the scheme is in the hands of
the Community Manager (i.e. Quim) and the outgoing council (oh, doh -
haven't got one this time) to decide what to do; probably erring to
something like "more advertising required", "karma restrictions
relaxed" or "scheme scrapped due to lack of interest".

This is detailed at:

    http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council#Elections

> My suggested compromise is that, for this first election, we leave the 100
> karma point restriction for being an eligible candidate but have no karma
> restriction for having a vote (but do require a garage account).

If this is the way the consensus is now going, so be it. It's
frustrating having this debate *now* when there've been numerous
pushes on the mailing lists, on the wiki and ITT to get that input
before now.

C'est la vie: noone does anything until it's real :-)

Cheers,

Andrew

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