<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 26 Jan 2009, at 13:14, Gregory Meyer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Leo Franchi <<a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org">lfranchi@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hash: SHA1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It has been a week since the last mail on either the topic of legal<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">representation or voting systems. I think it is a good time to sum up<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">what people have said and where we can go from here.</blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to remind people of two things:</div><div><br></div><div>1) the voting body is not a super cool club with private mailing lists and private irc channels. (like the KDE e.V.) </div><div>2) there are some qualifications: basically that you have been involved with amarok in some way (coding, community, etc) for a while, preferable >1yr.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>so if you would like to be included in the voting body, please email me off-list and once</div><div><br></div><div>thoughts? </div><div><br></div><div>leo</div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Leo Franchi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(650) 704 3680</div><div>Tufts University 2010 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org">lfranchi@kde.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu">leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>