[maemo-community] Getting the ball rolling for council elections, and proposal to lengthen terms

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:31, Dave Neary<dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>
>> If so, it's pretty trivial to run over
>> http://talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=$I where $I is not in the set of
>> accounts already bound and identify anyone where:
>
> we have different definitions of trivial. "where $I is not in the set of
> accounts already bound"? How do you calculate that?

For the sake of argument, let's assume the maemo.org account database
looks like:

+----+------------+------------------------------+
| id | username   | tmo_profile                  |
+----+------------+------------------------------+
| 1  | jaffa      | http://..../member.php?u=75  |
| 2  | bobsmith   |                              |
+----+------------+------------------------------+

I'm assuming it's not impossible for anyone with access to the
maemo.org account database to do:

    SELECT DISTINCT tmo_profile FROM accounts

That then gives a set of associated profile IDs of just (75). So,
iterate from 1 to 20000, skipping 75.

Cheers,

Andrew

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Maemo Community Council chair