<div dir="ltr">You've REALLY got to stop selling yourself short.<br />
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A council requires skills of all types.  If every member was a coder, then many needs would go unmet.  I focused largely on community-building, which just takes patience and at least a little social skill.  Other council members had different skills and interests and directed them accordingly.  That makes a team.<br />
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On that note-- could I get you to modify your MeeGo Greeter signature a bit?  Instead of "I probably don't know the answer" to "I may not know the answer"?  Tone means everything when presenting a community to new members.  ;)<br />
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From: "Kathy Smith" <kathy@revdkathy.com><br />
To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
Subject: Re: My maemo.org community council nominations<br />
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:53:16 +0100<br />
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">While Im deeply honoured to be included in Texrat's list of nominations, I have to be honest about my abilities. The longer I have spent in the community, the more I have become aware of my limitations: I have neither technical skills nor business experience.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">As a result, while part of me would love to be engaged and involved at the level of the council, I strongly suspect I'd be a bit of a lame duck and a bit useless. I'd find it hard to promote myself as a candidate, as I think there are people far better skilled and equipped than I for the role.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">On this basis, I feel I must decline, because I honestly don't think there's room on a five-person council for someone with so little proper background.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">But thank you, Tex, I'm flattered and honourd to be nominated.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Kathy</font></div>
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<div style="background: #e4e4e4; font: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="texrat@ovi.com" href="mailto:texrat@ovi.com">Randall Arnold</a></div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="maemo-community@maemo.org" href="mailto:maemo-community@maemo.org">Maemo Community</a></div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 08, 2010 3:54 AM</div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> My maemo.org community council nominations</div>
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<div dir="ltr">In a tmo thread earlier [1] I posed a several persons I thought would make outstanding candidates for the next community council.  After dwelling on it today I have narrowed it down to the following, whom I would like to nominate:<br />
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sjgadsby<br />
anidel<br />
revdkathy<br />
timoph<br />
qole<br />
attila77<br />
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Please understand this was not an easy list to reduce in either case.  There are a great many people I would love to include, but I am focusing on a mix I think have the necessary attributes for the current and upcoming community needs.<br />
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Note that the candidate(s) must accept for this nomination to have value.<br />
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<p>Randall (Randy) Arnold<br />
maemo.org community council<br />
blog: <a target="_blank" href="http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com">http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com</a><br />
cell: +18177396806<br />
irc: Texrat @ irc.freenode.net<br />
twitter: <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/texrat">http://twitter.com/texrat</a><br />
linkedin: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tabletman">http://www.linkedin.com/in/tabletman</a><br />
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[1] <a target="_blank" href="http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=809749&postcount=10">http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=809749&postcount=10</a></p>
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