Its great to be able to elect leaders, but there are two issues with this: -Voting should always be done in a secret manner to ensure it is not swayed; -There is no way to ensure someone doesn't vote more than once... Or am I missing something here
Pasi Lallinaho <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello Xubuntu community! > >It is the time to submit nominations for the next Xubuntu Project Lead >for the next two release cycles (see footnote [a] for clarification). > > >NOMINATIONS > >Nominations need to be sent to the Xubuntu developer mailing list [1] >*before* May 1 with a link to a wiki page for the nominee. Per the >strategy document [2], the wiki page should include at least the >following information: >– A brief history of the nominee in the FOSS world >– Activities in any relevant teams >– Thoughts about the Xubuntu development, including the biggest >challenges and possibilities >– Areas of interest as a project lead, including any changes the >nominee >is wishing to see in the team > >Both the nominating person and the nominee need to be members of the >Xubuntu users Launchpad group [3]. >Note: If you are nominating somebody else, please ask them for their >consent; only people who are willing to serve as the project lead can >be >elected. > > >VOTING > >There are two ways to vote to allow people from every timezone to vote: >1) By email, starting at 18UTC on May 1, ending at 18UTC on May 2. >2) In the Xubuntu community meeting starting at 18UTC on May 2 on the >#xubuntu-devel IRC channel. > >In the case there are more than one nominee, you should vote for one of >the nominees. >In the case there is only one nominee, you should vote for or against >the nominee. >In the case there are no nominees, the voting is cancelled and the >Xubuntu team will meet as scheduled to consider the future. > >Anybody in the Xubuntu users Launchpad group is entitled to vote. > > >QUESTIONS? > >If you have any questions, please send them to the Xubuntu developer >mailing list [3]. > > >Yours truly, >Pasi Lallinaho >Xubuntu Project Lead > > >[a] >The Xubuntu Strategy Document [2] states that the project lead "serves >a >term of four releases [...] and end with an LTS release". When my term >started on October 2011, the term length was set at three cycles, >ending >with the 13.04 release. To make the term end with an LTS release, the >project lead is unlike normally elected for only two cycles. > >[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/StrategyDocument >[3] https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-users > >-- >Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ >Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » >http://shimmerproject.org/ >Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/ > > >-- >xubuntu-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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