[maemo-community] Maemo Community Council Q1 2011 nominations are now open...

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Tuesday 15 March 2011 14:09:07 Felipe Crochik wrote:
> Running the election could be important to show that the council has the
> support of the community (and that there is still a community "in numbers")
> but I am afraid that running an election where all candidates are all
> elected regardless of the results may backfire - there will be little
> motivation to vote.

Seems likely.

> My suggestion would be, in case all the candidates get elected, to not run
> the election but soon after the transition run some poll to measure the
> community and its wishes/worries and also validate the new council. I think
> it is important to be able to show Nokia, developers and users in general
> how large the community is.

Like Aniello, I am very happy to endorse the five candidates and I don't think 
an election is needed.

I like the poll idea.  I think it would be good to better understand what the 
community wants to achieve given how much has changed over the last year or 
so.  For example, what should be the focus on supporting mainstream N900 users 
running Maemo 5 (things like keeping the Extras/downloads structure available, 
supporting/driving/controlling the CSSU, etc.) or older device users or N900 
users running MeeGo or Harmatten or even efforts to port Maemo or Harmatten to 
other devices!

Graham