Thread: Maemo Community Council elections: Nominations open!
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Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
If I may be so bold as to pose a question to the candidates:

I think we would all agree that at least the next 2 councils (12 months) will be dealing with significant changes as MeeGo begins to take shape and our community here begins to merge with the MeeGo community (however that may occur). This will cause changes in our community that the council will have to deal with (from significant to insignificant). In my opinion, it would be best to have stability on the council during this time period, I would hope that 3-5 members would get re-elected for the 2nd term (or possibly their 3rd straight term).

I think we can also all agree that there will be a vocal minority that are upset with those changes (no matter what they are). I would hate to see any newly elected coucil member decide not to run for an additional term because they are upset by a vocal minority of the community. So based on that:

How will you (personally) as a council member, deal with the likely complaints (and perhaps even personal attacks) from within the community? How will these complaints affect your commitment to being on the council?

I apologize if this offends anyone, but I think a stable *visible* driving force (the council) will be a key to the longevity (and birth or rebirth) of both communities.
(A continuation from my original reply, thanks for waiting a bit.}

HowardForums.com has about 800,000 members and features more than 10 million posts. An average of 6,000 active users can be found online at nearly all times of the day. I have been a member and one of only 42 moderators and administrators who manage that traffic for over 7 years now.

Some may know this and some may not. It is not something I actively promote because HowardForums is a commercial site and maemo.org is not. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm "old school" like that. However, if you look closely at the N900 screen in my forum avatar you can see that I pay tribute to both HowardForums and Internet Tablet Talk, the two forums that I have felt the strongest sense of community from.

This concern is also a reason why I have not chosen to run for council in the past as some may have construed it as means of drawing traffic either here or there. Now after 3 years of publicly viewable posts on both sites, one can review my record to see if my aim is true.

I make mention of it here lemmyslender because I believe that actions equal character. I feel the best way I can answer your questions regarding motivation, intention, and longevity is by offering these actions to you as an example. Having potentially 6,000 sets of eye balls viewing your response and them then having the ability to immediately critique it, concentrates the mind wonderfully.
It doesn't thicken the skin so much, because if that was the case after 7 years I would be a dang armadillo and not very effective

What it does do however, is teach you to look for the real issues and address the ones that you can have an impact upon.
I am now going to expand on this example a bit in my next post if you don't mind, in order to reply to my esteemed fellow candidate, Jaffa who also posted in this thread while I was composing my last post.
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