[maemo-developers] Community council

[From: Paul Bloch]

Cool, I'm glad this idea has developed.  So what do you think about
opening up each term as a way for a developer to lead the whole team?
Kind of like our periodic Steve Jobs that helps to steer the project
for the term and heads development.  If we get enough in support this
person could even get some of the donations to the project as a sort
of head developer.  It would be like an open source vacation. :)

I really think we could open up positions in a way that would be
filled by volunteers, but more similar to how a commercial or
non-profit project is run.  As I've said, I'm totally interested in
taking a creative directive role and helping to guide interface
development, icons, themeing, etc.  I also have ideas for innovating
in terms of industrial design.

That's my piece,

Paul

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Dave Neary <bolsh at gnome.org> wrote:
>>
>> So - the community council, then...
>>
>> what do people think of the idea? What should the remit be?
>
> Well, I'm biased: I think it's a good idea, but definitely NEEDS buy
> in from the community at this point, even if it's vocal "woohoo! great
> idea". Of course, the other approach is to set a minimum quorate vote
> threshold to gauge community involvement, but I'm suggesting this
> mostly facetiously.
>
> Since I've just got back from holiday/vacation[1], I'm doing a lot of
> catching up on the discussion about it so far (mostly on the talk
> page) and so might end up having the same discussions with people on
> IRC or via email they've already had.
>
> On a practical note, if the community does buy in to the idea (at the
> moment, I'd GUESS it does, but without a ringing endorsement from some
> of the community heavy-hitters it may die a death), will the voting
> facilities be available through maemo.org? I'd imagine we could use
> whatever process is going to used by the logo contest (possibly with
> tweaks).
>
>> I agree with the poster who said that monthly or quarterly election
>> would be too frequent. All depends on how onerous the voting process
>> will be, I suppose.
>
> I wouldn't support elections more frequently than 6 months, but could
> be persuaded that *longer* terms were necessary. I'd strongly suggest
> 6 months would be the sweet spot at the moment, and that the process
> can be changed over time (I dumped some notes on the process for
> changing the rules into the wiki page over a SFR wifi connection in
> France, last week).
>
> As for the voting process itself: I'd imagined a web page on a trusted
> site (maemo.org ideally, ITT perhaps if not) with a list of
> candidate's names and nicks, in alphabetical order, with a radio
> button beside their name and a "Vote" button at the moment. Shouldn't
> be too onerous :-)
>
> Dave, if you've got any knowledge on how the logo voting is going to
> be handled - or know if ferenc or X-Fade do - does this sound like a
> feasible option?
>
> As Dave says, though, if anyone's got any thoughts on this - please
> don't hesitate to raise them, even if it's as simple as "god no!" or
> "about time!". If this is largely pushed through by GeneralAntilles,
> lardman and myself, it can hardly claim to be a COMMUNITY council:
> don't wait until the voting happens: speak now or the vote may never
> be held.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jaffa
>
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