maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Maemo Community Council elections: Nominations open!

	Jaffa	2010-03-17 , 13:09
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Originally Posted by YoDude

I'll post my answers here as formatting an e-mail leaves something to be desired.

Please could you follow-up to the email on maemo-community pointing to your response, and I'd also suggest updating the wiki page to point to your answers so that voters can see your reply without it being buried in the middle of a thread.

As I said in my nomination, I am a Forum centric member of maemo.org. I believe a lot more could be done with the forums that will benefit all channels in maemo.org. At times I feel that this potential has been squandered. The framing of questions like 4a (above) shows me that perhaps some of us still don’t understand how strong the sense of community can develop from within a forum and how productive that could be.

I don't think you'll find a single candidate who'd argue with the fact that the forums are one of the biggest single reasons the Maemo community is where it is today. Nor that a passionate, powerful and informed group of people can exist within a forum (and, in particular this one).

However, could you explain more of the concrete changes you see so that "some of us" and the electorate can exactly see how you think the fora could be used better? Links to posts where you have suggested these improvements in the past would also be welcome :-)

Otherwise, I call "strawman"! (Been watching too much of season 7 of The West Wing; can I call the lawyers yet to arbitrate over the result?)

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Last edited by Jaffa; 2010-03-17 at 13:53. Reason: Reword to avoid clumsy phraseology

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