[maemo-community] Explaining karma

[From: gary liquid]

Dave,


> While I disagree with "dangerous", I am not opposed now to using only
> the existence of a maemo account 3 months before the election date as
> the eligibility condition. I will generate a list of eligible voters
> based on this.


Excellent

I want the council to be constructive, and I want it to support the
> people who are actually doing things for Maemo. That means electing
> people from those doing things for Maemo. Not necessarily the best known
> and not the loudest complainers.
>
> That's the way my vote will be going.
>

Just the way it should be.
We are all now eligable to vote for our favorites and I don't have to do any
karma whoring to join in :)

Good luck to all the candidates.

Gary (lcuk)







On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'll try to be delicate here while still saying what I want to say...
>
> Jonas Hurrelmann wrote:
> > And if you really think the maemo community is a mob (sic!) who will vote
> for
> > some inactive people who just want to gain fame (or what ever your fears
> are),
> > I wonder why we should have elections at all to represent that "mob".
>
> I can imagine situations where the people who are the loudest, who are
> very active on IRC and in web forums, but who don't actually contribute
> positively, get voted in by a large group of people who think that what
> the council is about is sticking it to Nokia.
>
> I want the council to be constructive, and I want it to support the
> people who are actually doing things for Maemo. That means electing
> people from those doing things for Maemo. Not necessarily the best known
> and not the loudest complainers.
>
> That's the way my vote will be going.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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