[maemo-community] A rant on 25th-hour hysterics...

[From: Eric Warnke]

Despite owning a 770 and being involved in IRC and iTT I didn't setup
a garage account until I needed to do some collaboration on the
grandcentral dialer ( just released into extras today as dialcentral
).  I didn't setup a maemo.org account until the Summit came around.
It turns out that was after the 3 month cutoff.  I was unable to run
for office because I had no idea how "karma" worked and most of my
participation had been on iTT and IRC, areas that karma still doesn't
cover.

Maybe I would have been more active in maemo.org or karma had I been
on this list, but as I believe I have stated in the past... I hate
email lists.  I don't have another 4 hours a week to dedicate to
reading and responding to another listserv.

As others have pointed out it's very hard to quantify a "participating
community member" and even harder to setup an artificial rating system
to make such determinations.

-Eric


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Warnke wrote:
>> The Community Council is a prime example.  Because of the rules
>> decided on here by a consensus I am ineligible to vote or run for
>> office.  While it might have made a difference had I subscribed to
>> this list earlier, the topic was brought up by others.
>
> You didn't have a maemo.org account 3 months ago? To my mind the bar for
> voting was set too low, so I'd be interested to hear why you don't qualify.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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