Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi , Bernhard Dippold wrote (24-11-10 23:51) Vote only once a year (as any election draws action from the "normal" tasks a shorter term will take too much resources) and elect all BoD members. Voting each year for all members, that can serve for two years consecutively, requires that from ou

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-24 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Michael, Cor, all, I didn't think of the overall sight, so now I have to change my voting: Michael Meeks schrieb: Hi guys, On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 01:57 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Cor Nouws schrieb: Has been considered that this leads to a situation where each year people have to get us

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-24 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Michael, all, one question on the ESC: Michael Meeks schrieb: Hi Drew, On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 07:56 -0500, drew wrote: [...] The ESC, do you see this as a very active group, for instance working as the release team, meeting often and looking at individual issues? Wrt. looking a

Re: [steering-discuss] bylaws - STV ...

2010-11-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Michael, Michael Meeks wrote (24-11-10 22:01) On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 17:07 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: So - I havn't got to looking at this in detail yet; but I strongly recommend a 'fair' voting scheme - such as used by GNOME - ie. STV. This Can you pls tell what STV is?

[steering-discuss] bylaws - STV ...

2010-11-24 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Cor, On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 17:07 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > > So - I havn't got to looking at this in detail yet; but I strongly > > recommend a 'fair' voting scheme - such as used by GNOME - ie. STV. This > >Can you pls tell what STV is? Single Transferable Vote; cf.

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Michael Meeks wrote (22-11-10 18:08) Hi there, On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 21:03 +0800, David Nelson wrote: It seems that there are still some big ambiguities that would need to be resolved: Well detected :-) "The Chairperson is elected by a special electoral college comprised of the BoD,

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-24 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 00:52, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > yup. But after Michael's points, I also think we might clarify and > simplify all this a great deal. In a nutshell > > 1) the ESC does not get to vote, it's not elected, and it's a technical > body. The AB can propose candidate(s),

Re: [steering-discuss] poll on next confcall

2010-11-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2010-11-19 18.12: we should host another marketing confcall this year, so I'd like to hear your favorite date and time at http://www.doodle.com/ffzxhxpmcthd5t53 a short reminder: Please cast your vote :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee a