<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, Maemo Community. :)<div><br></div><div>As most of you probably already know, the 100 Days brainstorm over at <a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/100Days">http://wiki.maemo.org/100Days</a> 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 (<a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council">http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Community_Council</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Purpose</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>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.</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">Structure</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">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.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">Elections</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* The 5 council members will be elected by the community.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Elections are held every 6 months.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Nominations accepted 2 weeks before the election begins.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Elections last for 1 week.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Only community members with karma above 50 may vote.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Each community member gets one vote.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* The 5 nominees with the most votes are elected.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">Operations</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* 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.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Distill community issues to bring to Nokia's attention.</font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE">* Help manage community involvement (e.g. Maemowiki Action Group, 100Days and 2010 Agenda)</font></blockquote><br></div><div>Andrew Flegg (Jaffa), Simon Pickering (lardman) and myself (GeneralAntilles) have been the ones pushing this idea so far, but a <i>c</i><i>ommunity</i> council shouldn't be pushed by only 3 people, so we need everybody's help in figuring out how things should work.</div><div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council)">http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council)</a> 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 :)</div><div><br></div><div>Let's make maemo.org the best community website it can be!</div></body></html>