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

[From: Tim]

Hi,

 > I see the council as primarily a reactive role (shepherding some of
 > the key events like the summit, GSoc etc.); and so I'm interested to
 > hear from people who think that there are things the council should be
 > doing which we haven't been (either because they're too big for our
 > scope or whatever).

Unfortunately, every time we ask, no one has any ideas. We've tried so 
many times... :(

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 15:29, Dave Neary<dneary at maemo.org>  wrote:
>> I'd like to see us get the ball rolling on the next council elections
>> early next week, and open the call for candidates soon. We're running
>> quite close to the wire for the summit getting the election done, and
>> giving the council a chance to meet virtually before then.
>
> Agreed. In particular, we'll need you/Henri/Niels to look at the
> account/karma situation for non-existing maemo.org accounts at
> talk.maemo.org which _would_ meet the karma requirements if they had
> accounts.
>
>> I would also like to propose that we concurrently run a referendum (yes,
>> another one) on lengthening the council's term to one year.
>
> I see the council as primarily a reactive role (shepherding some of
> the key events like the summit, GSoc etc.); and so I'm interested to
> hear from people who think that there are things the council should be
> doing which we haven't been (either because they're too big for our
> scope or whatever).
>
>> If the council agrees, I'd like to see us run this referendum
>> concurrently, and thus it would apply to the council elected in March
>> 2010 (since it seems really weird for me to have it apply to people who
>> only signed up for 6 months in September).
>
> Personally, it's not something I'd support. However, I'm happy to open
> it up to a referendum if there's a support for both sides (or even
> overwhelming support in favour of the idea).
>
> In particular, how would Simon&  Eduardo - both people who didn't
> stand again - feel about tying themselves in for a *year*?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>

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