Summary of board- and voting-related discussions, and what comes next

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

Personally I feel that last years GSoC students ( at least the ones
still active ) deserve a vote. This is somewhat less than 1 year but
many of them has already put in a non trivial amount of work, attended
Akademy and other conferences, ...

- Nikolaj

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2009, at 13:14, Gregory Meyer wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> It has been a week since the last mail on either the topic of legal
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> representation or voting systems. I think it is a good time to sum up
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> what people have said and where we can go from here.
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> Something just came to mind: it makes more sense (i think) to first vote on
> new members before voting for the board. Otherwise it seems like we're
> appointing the voters who will then vote for the board (which may be made up
> of those who made the appointments).
> If someone is voted to get voting powers immediately, then it is natural
> that he/she should be able to vote for the board itself.
> I propose instead of having a 2 week period of voting for board nominees
> (which is a loong time really), we vote on new voting members from now (as
> the current list is already fixed and ready) to the end of the first week
> (so Feb 6th lets say), and vote on the board itself from Feb 7th to Feb
> 14th.
> I would like to remind people of two things:
> 1) the voting body is not a super cool club with private mailing lists and
> private irc channels. (like the KDE e.V.)
> 2) there are some qualifications: basically that you have been involved with
> amarok in some way (coding, community, etc) for a while, preferable >1yr.
> i say there are no "hard" qualifications because obviously as it is a vote
> there is some flexibility, and if people don't feel that you have been
> involved enough then the vote will not pass.
> so if you would like to be included in the voting body, please email me
> off-list and once
> thoughts?
> leo
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