Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Jonas Oberg
Hi everyone, > There is a distinction though: I think the previous model was about > establishing organizations that look like FSFE. My suggestion is that > the member organizations would probably be existing organizations with > their own name, identity and governance structure. The only thing

Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/04/17 06:46, Florian Snow wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I appreciate your effort here, but I would advise to perhaps not re-open > this topic again already. The change away from Fellow to some other I'm not suggesting to re-open it immediately, rather, to put it on hold while the bigger

Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 27/04/17 06:23, Florian Snow wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > > Daniel Pocock writes: >> Another pattern is for people to be full members of a local or national >> association and then each of those associations sends a delegate to a >> peak body such as FSFE. In that case, no

Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Daniel, I appreciate your effort here, but I would advise to perhaps not re-open this topic again already. The change away from Fellow to some other term has been decided twice already to my knowledge. The first time, the decision was communicated but afterwards pretty much ingored which

Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Florian Snow
Hi Erik, Thank you for trying to find the reasons for the low turnout. I already responded on fsfe-de, but I would like to sum up my thoughts here for everyone who does not speak German. I think it is unclear what the GA does and this makes it hard for people to make a decision. Even among us

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2017-04-26 Thread Regina Sipos
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Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Jonas Oberg
Hi Daniel, > Another idea might be having another Summit event, perhaps aligned with > some other event such as FOSDEM, at the start of the process (for > brainstorming ideas) and at the end of the process (for ratifying a > proposal). That's not a bad idea, but it depends on the budget we can

Re: Fellowship elections participation

2017-04-26 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 26/04/17 08:36, Jonas Oberg wrote: > Hi Daniel, > >> I wonder if FSFE could get a summer intern to look at this specific >> question, look at the models used by other non-profit organizations, >> survey volunteers and donors and prepare a shortlist of options? > > That's a good idea. In a