[maemo-developers] Community council

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 22:13 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So - the community council, then...
> 
> what do people think of the idea?

I like it. It's not clear what it will become, but it could be a good
way for Maemo to start becoming less owned by Nokia alone, thus giving
it more life. I think Nokia want to have way to do this.

I recommend being quite informal to start with, only adding rules and
bureaucracy where it's genuinely useful.

>  What should the remit be?

At the very least it can be a group of people who's job it is to clearly
and briefly express the community's needs and concerns. Where consensus
exists, it should express it. The mailing list is too busy for most
people to see that otherwise.  

Like the GNOME Board, it may later wish to delegate some tasks to
specialized groups, such as administrators for mailing lists, web
servers, source code repositories, etc.
 
> 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.
> 
> Proposals to go here: https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council
> And discussions can go to the list, or here:
> https://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council

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