Community Council

This is the proposal for a Community Council based on the proposal from the 100 Days brainstorm. It is a work in progress to be thrashed out over the next 30 days, so these ideas are fluid and will change frequently.

Purpose
The maemo community currently lacks focus for its issues and ideas. There are a lot of great minds with lots of good ideas but they lack organization and focus. The council will serve to help distill and focus these ideas (from the maemo.org mailing lists, IRC, itT, Bugzilla, etc), and bring them to Nokia's attention.

The council will also serve to facilitate a dialog between Nokia and the community on these issues, holding monthly IRC meetings with Quim to discuss progress on existing issues and raise new issues.

Structure
The council will be composed of 5 community members to be elected by the community with 1 member as the council chairman. The chairman will be selected by the council after the completion of elections and requires a majority vote of 3 out of 5 council members. If no majority can be reached, the chairman will be the member with the most community votes. Potential candidates must have 100 karma points on maemo.org.

Elections
The 5 council members will be elected by the community.


 * Elections are held every 6 months.
 * Nominations accepted 2 weeks before the election begins.
 * Elections last for 1 week.
 * Only community members with karma above 50 may vote.
 * Each community member gets one vote.
 * The 5 nominees with the most votes are elected.