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Q2 2017 Community Council Election Announcement
Since there is some small issues with autoposting from maemo.org/news to TMO under @CommunityCouncil nick, I will post this myself.
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How long is the council term? Is it now a whole year or did the last term just slip? I've no problem with either, I'm just curious.
Anyway, I nominate all current members of the council plus Android_808, Copernicus, endsormeans, gerbick, marxian, mosen, mscion, peterleinchen, rcolistete, robthebold, rzr, sicelo, t-b, theonelaw and Wikiwide. |
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I would like to take this opportunity to announce my intention not to run in the Council election and not to accept any nominations.
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It was not a joke. I am currently a Council member and some may expect me to run again. Plus wicket nominated all current members.
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Indeed, it is just as acceptable to decline a nomination as to welcome it; there can be a ton of personal reasons why not run for Council seat.
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I nominate Dave999 ^that is a joke. |
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@wicket I am flattered by your nomination, but I doubt I am the best man for the job - so I have to decline unless nobody else is willing... :)
It might be good to have some more technical members in the council, the members that are getting things done (or have done in the past). Just to name a few, there are certainly more.. pali, Android_808, theKit, wicket, coderus, MartinK, freemangordon, Halftux, chenliangchen, dirkvl |
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Thank you juiceme and t-b. I accept the nomination. :)
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Hey all,
as pichlo (whereas not being a member of the current council) I need to tell that I would not be a good part of council for this time. Which does not mean I am off but ... (thanks for being mentioned) Nevertheless I have absolute no objections against a longer council term. I had already proposed earlier to prolong the term to, let's say 9-12 months, instead of "only" 6 months. These 6 months run very fast and we need also stabilty in 'these times of dusk'. (--edit: sorry!) And for council it also takes away time to prepare/work the election. Please share your thoughts |
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I am fine with the suggestions from wicket and t-b.
And thank you for mention my name, however I would like to spend my time for so to say technical support. I think I am really the wrong person for politics and organization and cannot fulfill this important position. Also I have to many other construction areas in my life which I need to get sorted first. |
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Indeed, the Council position does not require deep technical knowledge and is very well suitable for people who can dedicate few hours per week for community tasks.
Some technical knowledge is required from some council members but definitely not from all; that means mainly working with databases when setting up elections and maintaining upload/access rights to Maemo repositories. |
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Hey, why don't you run for President of TMO? I could however be in a council only responsible for the off topic section if that was requested. That's the part of TMO that is open source. |
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I'm afraid I will not candidate for the next term. I suffer from chronic lack of time, and sometimes I just cannot work with the enthusiasm that juiceme and eekkelund have. These two certainly must - and deserve to - be in the council again.
I'm happy that wicket has accepted the nomination. I'm sure he'd (or he will) be a great "acquisition" :) I'd also like to explicitly nominate peterleinchen and mosen! |
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How could i turn down two nominations :eek:
Thanks, i would be honored! I frequently have to travel on very short notice and am unavailable for days though. But I would be more than happy to use the time i already spend here to do some more effective things. |
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There's less than a week left until the nomination period ends and we're short on candidates. As far as I can tell, only mosen and myself have put ourselves forward. Any more volunteers?
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I am not being sarcastic or anything.. But what does this council do? What is a member of the council expected to do? Really sorry for asking a dumb question, but I would sincerely like to know..
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Originally I thought I could pass this by as I have already been in Council for 7 terms already. (yes, I had to check it from the election results files to be sure!)
However, I am willing to step in as an example to others; it is really not that tasking position to be in so I encourage all to consider running for Council! Note that to make it official, you need to send a message to the mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org to announce your candidacy. Here's the link to my announcement I just posted; http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/mae...ay/006245.html |
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Main tasks of the Council are (at least) the following;
Other general tasks, like arranging the Coding Competition last year. (here you can insert anything else that you'd like to do/have/arrange) Main requirements are willingness to dedicate some time to Community needs, to be able to participate in IRC meeting regularily (we have tried to keep that 1 meeting per week) There are no strict technical abilities one needs to have, with the exception that someone in council needs to take care of the election machine which means some database skills. |
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Kind reminder that today is the last day to announce your candidacy by posting it to the mailing list maemo-community@maemo.org.
Also I have chosen that I won't candidate for the next term. Reason is this famous 'no time' as I have lately become entrepreneur + have other job and studies. I wish good luck for all candidates :) |
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made mine official:
https://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/ma...ay/006249.html |
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To be fair, i am on utc +2 so i missed by half an hour. Schroedingers candidacy :p |
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My email hasn't appeared on the mailing list web archives yet. I got an automated message saying that it was awaiting moderation so I guess I just have to be patient. As far as I can tell, we are still one candidate short to form a council. What happens now? |
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I could probably give it a crack. Exams are finished in two weeks, which finishes off the degree. So, I should have some spare time on my plate and I would love to help give back.
How many hours does it average per week? Either way, I have been planning to go through threads; taking notes and summaries for updating wikis, etc. |
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Of course I don't know how things will work out this time |
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With all of the talk from existing council members about being unable to dedicate enough time, it has caused me some concern that I might end up falling into the same category. I would feel much more comfortable being on a council of 5 than a council of 3 so that council tasks could be better distributed. For the same reasons, I would also prefer to stick with a 6 month term as opposed to an extended period as peterleinchen suggested. What's the current situation with karma points? Do all candidates qualify? |
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to be honest I do not have a lot of time on my hands either, and will be moving to a country with very bad Internet connections as soon as next week. However, it seems that in general, not much time is needed, unless something out of the ordinary comes up.
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If I remember correctly, Council meetings happen once a week, and take approximately an hour (or half an hour?). The main thing is to agree on exact time (members are usually in very different timezones).
Chair (one member of Council, selected at first meeting of Council) takes care that all topics are discussed at the meeting (not forgotten), and summarises results of discussion as can be seen here: https://talk.maemo.org/tags.php?tag=meeting+minutes . Example of a first meeting of just-elected Council: https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=96728 I am quite surprised that I cannot find any posts by CommunityCouncil on TMO in 2017. Have people forgotten how to do it?.. I can send an HTML template from back when I was a Council chairman, long ago. I do not visit TMO much (like, once a month or so), but I will try to visit #maemo-meeting more. Best wishes. Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Per aspera ad astra... |
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Mosen (524) Sicelo (240) Wicket (406) Juiceme (1018) Thanks for all Candidates! This is enough, and we can proceed with the election of 3 Councillors for the next term. |
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It just happened so that there were quite many meetings with nothing important to report that when we actually did have stuff it was already a habit of not to make the minutes. |
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I vote for dave999
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I feel as though I should just comment on wicket and t-b's nomination for myself as I haven't done so up until now.
As some of you know, I'm not that great at appearing on irc. I also do shift work plus covering 2 lots of maternity cover during and outside of my own hours at the moment (soon to be 1). As a result my time is quite limited depending on what week of my shift pattern it is. To top it off, I've not been 100% since before christmas and have now been referred to the local hospital for checks. I don't think it is anything major but until I know what the story is I don't want to commit just in case. |
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My candidate declaration email has now been approved. :)
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GL all...May the force be with you! |
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