[maemo-community] Election process referendum

[From: Benson Mitchell]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Graham Cobb
<g+770 at cobb.uk.net<g%2B770 at cobb.uk.net>
> wrote:

> On Monday 02 February 2009 12:02:01 Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > I certainly *wouldn't* be happy if - at the last minute - the karma
> > requirement was dropped again.
>
> Eh????  I am not happy that the karma requirement, which was dropped after
> protest the last time around, is being raised again at the last minute!
>
> I obviously had exactly the opposite assumption from you: I had assumed
> that
> in the absence of a proposal to the contrary, the same rules as last time
> would be in place.
>
Yes, the rules as stated, including a special exemption for the first
election, which the upcoming election is not.

>
> > There's been plenty of time for people
> > to garner 25 karma points;
>
> Yes.  That is a good point.  So, I would like to hear from anyone who might
> still be affected by this new proposal to re-instate the 25-points rule to
> understand if it is likely to disqualify people who should reasonably be
> considered part of the community.

You keep calling it a "new proposal", but that is factually inaccurate; I
can see how some people might have failed to realize it, but this has been
clearly stated since August 14. See
http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?title=Task:Community_Council&oldid=6602.


Benson
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