[maemo-developers] maemo.org community leadership - the maemo.org Community Council

[From: Ryan Abel]

Hello, Maemo Community. :)

As most of you probably already know, the 100 Days brainstorm over at http://wiki.maemo.org/100Days 
  has recently concluded, and now is the time to start working on  
pushing the Tasks: that came out of it. To that end, I'd like to  
request everybody's input on task that will likely help most in moving  
forward with a community-driven maemo.org, the maemo.org Community  
Council (http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council).

Over the 30 days or so, we need to pound out a framework for the  
council—define its scope, responsibilities, organization, and purpose,  
and figure out the nomination and election procedure.

This is the first draft, and all ideas are still fluid and open to  
modification. Please feel encouraged to discussion and modify any of  
these points on the wiki.

> Purpose
>
> The maemo community currently lacks focus for its issues and ideas.  
> There are a lot of great minds with lots of good ideas but they lack  
> organization and focus. The council will serve to help distill and  
> focus these ideas (from the maemo.org mailing lists, IRC, itT,  
> Bugzilla, etc), bring them to Nokia's attention, and seek to  
> understand Nokia's position on these issues and help to explain it  
> to the rest of the community.
>
> The council will also serve to facilitate a dialog between Nokia and  
> the community on these issues, holding monthly IRC meetings with  
> Quim to discuss progress on existing issues and raise new issues.
>
> Structure
>
> The council will be composed of 5 community members to be elected by  
> the community with 1 member as the council chairman. The chairman  
> will be selected by the council after the completion of elections  
> and requires a majority vote of 3 out of 5 council members. If no  
> majority can be reached, the chairman will be the member with the  
> most community votes. Potential candidates must have 100 karma  
> points on maemo.org.
>
> Elections
>
> * The 5 council members will be elected by the community.
> * Elections are held every 6 months.
> * Nominations accepted 2 weeks before the election begins.
> * Elections last for 1 week.
> * Only community members with karma above 50 may vote.
> * Each community member gets one vote.
> * The 5 nominees with the most votes are elected.
>
> Operations
>
> * The council will hold monthly IRC meetings with the contacts from  
> the Maemo Software team at Nokia to discuss new issues and progress  
> on existing issues.
> * Distill community issues to bring to Nokia's attention.
> * Help manage community involvement (e.g. Maemowiki Action Group,  
> 100Days and 2010 Agenda)

Andrew Flegg (Jaffa), Simon Pickering (lardman) and myself  
(GeneralAntilles) have been the ones pushing this idea so far, but a  
community council shouldn't be pushed by only 3 people, so we need  
everybody's help in figuring out how things should work.

In the interest of keeping council discussion in a single easy-to-get- 
to place, anybody interested in helping out should head on over to the  
Community Council Talk Page (http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council 
) and get discussing! It's preferable that discussion not be held on  
this mailing list, as the wiki will be easier for people to find, and  
to keep up-to-date and on-topic :)

Let's make maemo.org the best community website it can be!
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