Hi, > I see the council as primarily a reactive role (shepherding some of > the key events like the summit, GSoc etc.); and so I'm interested to > hear from people who think that there are things the council should be > doing which we haven't been (either because they're too big for our > scope or whatever).
Unfortunately, every time we ask, no one has any ideas. We've tried so many times... :( Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 15:29, Dave Neary<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd like to see us get the ball rolling on the next council elections >> early next week, and open the call for candidates soon. We're running >> quite close to the wire for the summit getting the election done, and >> giving the council a chance to meet virtually before then. > > Agreed. In particular, we'll need you/Henri/Niels to look at the > account/karma situation for non-existing maemo.org accounts at > talk.maemo.org which _would_ meet the karma requirements if they had > accounts. > >> I would also like to propose that we concurrently run a referendum (yes, >> another one) on lengthening the council's term to one year. > > I see the council as primarily a reactive role (shepherding some of > the key events like the summit, GSoc etc.); and so I'm interested to > hear from people who think that there are things the council should be > doing which we haven't been (either because they're too big for our > scope or whatever). > >> If the council agrees, I'd like to see us run this referendum >> concurrently, and thus it would apply to the council elected in March >> 2010 (since it seems really weird for me to have it apply to people who >> only signed up for 6 months in September). > > Personally, it's not something I'd support. However, I'm happy to open > it up to a referendum if there's a support for both sides (or even > overwhelming support in favour of the idea). > > In particular, how would Simon& Eduardo - both people who didn't > stand again - feel about tying themselves in for a *year*? > > Cheers, > > Andrew > -- http://tim.samoff.com _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
