[maemo-community] Maemo Community Council: election announcement

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:50, Jamie Bennett<jamie at linuxuk.org> wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 10:36, Andrea Grandi wrote:
>> You say that on 27th September we'll have the new council. I
>> suppose you'll want to sponsor council members for the
>> Summit, but if we only know their names after 27th September
>> it will be very expensive to book their flights just 10 days
>> before!
>
> I would imaging that anyone who is interested in being on the
> council with already be going to the summit, either sponsored
> or by some other means.

Agreed. Also, the election has to be held after 6 months, and it seems
only fair to have the new council in place for the summit.

As the current council is in charge of deciding sponsorships, we'll
apply some intelligence in deciding if nominees get sponsorship if
requested.

Given the council is effectively the community choosing the people to
represent it, the people chosen are almost certainly going to be
existing well-known members of the community with a track record of
helping, facilitating and being active.

One'd imagine that such people should be sponsored either way!

Cheers,

Andrew

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Maemo Community Council chair