Actually, for what it's worth, I do think that it would be wholly inappropriate to have the initial board not include the founder of the project. Mark is as dedicated as they come and without his direction this project would be nothing. He is the Linus Torvalds of Amarok.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Gregory Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@gkmeyer.com">greg@gkmeyer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Umm, he wasn't nominating, he was endorsing.<br><br>BTW, I don't think it matters if someone has multiple nominations, so it would be pointless to list five people already listed, but I was thinking that it might make some sense to have a short bio or fact set about each person that is nominated so that people that are not completely familiar with everyone can be more informed.<br>
<br>Something like age, length with project, major contributions, etc.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Leo Franchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org" target="_blank">lfranchi@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>You may notice that you were already nominated, so you are already in the running.<div>
<br></div><div>Thank you for failing to provide the up to 5 nominations that were asked for. </div><div><br></div><div>leo</div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div><div><div>On 27 Jan 2009, at 21:47, Mark Kretschmann wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Heya,<br><br>I was pondering the voting stuff and decided to follow the American<br>tradition of giving a public "Endorsement" [1]. This does not have any<br>legal relevance, but is meant for your consideration as good advice<br>
for choosing board members.<br><br><br>* Seb Ruiz<br><br>Seb has been with the Amarok project for a long time. Indisputably,<br>Seb is extremely loyal to our project, which he has shown by his<br>persistent dedication. Seb Ruiz sports a number of qualities that I<br>
greatly appreciate. Among these are technical competence, a great<br>focus on detail, humor, and social skills. Seb has my full trust. I<br>feel that he represents much of the original spirit of our project.<br><br><br>* Ian Monroe<br>
<br>Ian also has been with Amarok for quite a while. Similar to Seb, his<br>dedication is hardly disputable. Ian does have different qualities<br>from Seb, but shares the technical competence and the humor. Two<br>qualities that I appreciate especially from Ian are his honesty and<br>
his "getting things done" attitude. I also feel that Ian fully<br>understands and acts what is important to Amarok.<br><br><br>Last not least I would also like to recommend myself for the board. My<br>qualities are obvious I think. I do also sport a number of well known<br>
disadvantages, among which are impatience, aggressiveness, and perhaps<br>a perceived lack of social finesse. Some of these issues I have been<br>trying to improve, and I'm actively working on improving them further.<br>
Believe it or not, but people can change, especially if there is a<br>will. You be the judge.<br><br><br>Further on we have a number of people that I greatly appreciate, among<br>which are Leinir, Nikolaj, Lydia, Leo, Bart, and Jeff. I'm pretty sure<br>
that these people are also good candidates for our board.<br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_endorsement" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_endorsement</a><br><br>-- <br>Mark Kretschmann<br>
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