[maemo-community] My council election standing
From: Robin Burchell viroteck at viroteck.netDate: Sat Sep 18 21:03:35 EEST 2010
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Hi all, As many of you may know, I stood for council in the current elections. It was a spur of the moment decision, partly based on the (at the time) lack of candidates in what I consider an important time, but also due to my feelings on what I consider to be many key issues. However.. taking decisions on the spur of the moment often has consequences, and it certainly did in this case. In particular, I neglected to read http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council/Election_process - point #6 to be exact. You see, as some of you will probably know, I am employed by Collabora Ltd. Amongst Collabora's clients is Nokia. It was pointed out by a close friend of mine that I hadn't declared this when I stood, so I consulted Dave this afternoon about this issue, and as a result, my candidacy has been removed from consideration - I am no longer in the running as a candidate, and any votes I recieve will automatically be transferred to the next. (I don't know the full details of how this works. Dave?) I'd like to note three things now that the cat is out of the bag: - I am perfectly happy with being out of the running. We have many fine candidates still in the running, and as such, I am certain that the council will have a fine composition, regardless of who wins. - I also did (no matter how slightly) break the rules, and as such, I must face the consequences. :) - Let this be a lesson to you all: read the fine print! Best of luck to all remaining candidates - and lastly, I'm sorry to *you*, the community, for letting you down like this. Finally: I'm on the road for the next day or so, so responses will be extremely delayed until Sunday night at the earliest. -- Robin Burchell http://rburchell.com
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