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== Community Council Term of Service ==
== Community Council Term of Service ==
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=== Current referenda ===
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[http://maemo.org/vote Three referenda] are being run from February 16 2009 until February 23 2009 to decide some procedural datas around elections.
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* [[Community Council/Voting rights Q1 2009 | Who should have voting rights for the next community council elections?]]
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* [[Community Council/Council Voting rights | Who should have voting rights for all future community council elections?]]
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* [[Community Council/Counting methods | How should ballots be counted in community council elections?]]
=== Next Election ===
=== Next Election ===

Revision as of 10:15, 18 February 2009

Contents

Member Roster

September 2008 - February 2009 (Inaugural Council)

Ryan Abel
(GeneralAntilles) 		Andrew Flegg
(Jaffa) 		Eduado Lima
(etrunko) 		Simon Pickering
(lardman) 		Tim Samoff
(timsamoff)
Council Chair

Community Council Term of Service

Current referenda

Three referenda are being run from February 16 2009 until February 23 2009 to decide some procedural datas around elections.

Next Election

  • March 2009

Purpose (Mission)

  • To represent the Maemo Community's best interests to Nokia, as well as act as a community conduit for Nokia-generated information.
  • ...

Open Communication

Open communication is one of the core values of the Community Council, both to serve as an example to Nokia and because it's the right thing to do. All communication is open by default.

  • All Community Council oriented conversation will happen either on the maemo-community mailing list, or over IRC in #maemo.
  • Community and Council issues will be distilled and summarized in the Council blog (which is also syndicated to Planet).

Six-Month Roadmap

  • Review election process & electorate, etc.
  • Reduce Quim's workload
    • Distill community channels consistently
    • Bring relevant points to Nokia's attention
  • Community has root@maemo.org
  • What does the community expect from the council?
    • Initiate plans the next summit?
    • Follow up on 100 Day Brainstorm?
    • Define our own role?
    • ...

Twelve-Month Roadmap

Community Council Selection Process

Requirements for Candidature

Election Process

The 5 council members will be elected by the community.

  1. Nominations will be accepted 2 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a karma of 100 or above.
  2. Elections last for 1 week.
  3. Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 25 or above, may vote. (Exception for first election: community members who have maemo.org accounts for over 3 months may vote - no karma requirement).
  4. Each community member gets one vote.
  5. The 5 nominees with the most votes are elected.
  6. Nominees with a professional interest in Maemo, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved in Maemo-related software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the Nokia Community Manager, or the outgoing Council, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.
  7. There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
  8. The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
  9. The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
  10. If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
  11. If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
    1. The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
    2. If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 3 candidates; the outgoing council will decide - in conjunction with Nokia's Community Manager (currently Quim) - about how to proceed. The preferred solution is to encourage more members of the maemo.org community to participate and re-run the election, but all options are open.
  12. Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
    1. Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
    2. The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
    3. Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

Additional Community Resources

Retrieved from "http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council"