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The 5 council members will be elected by the community.

# Nominations will be accepted 2 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a [[karma]] of 100 or above.
# Elections last for 1 week.
# Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 10 or above, may vote.
# Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.
# The 5 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected.
# 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.
# There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
# The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
# The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
# If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
# If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
## 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.
# Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
## The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
## Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

== Running an election ==

Running an election has several distinct phases:
* Agreeing on the election schedule and announcing it, as detailed above
* Validating candidate proposals for the election (requirement of >100 karma on the date the election is announced)
* [[maemo.org team/Creating an election|Creating the election]] in the system and sending out voting tokens
* Finally, [[maemo.org team/Generating election results|counting the election and announcing the results]]

The first and second phase is entirely the resonsibility of the outgoing community council. The third phase requires a list of maemo.org account holders at a certain date, and thus requires the intervention of someone with access to maemo.org infrastructure, and also requires access to a specific database on test.maemo.org, which again requires access. However, the access is only required for a small part of the step, and it is the council's responsibility to provide all of the information needed to create the election. The fourth step requires OpenSTV, a project licenced under the GPL, but which the author has decided to sell. It is difficult to find newer versions of OpenSTV online, even though the software is GPL v2 licenced. We should check and older version of OpenSTV into maemo2midgard to enable us to count elections reliably.

== Community Council Referenda ==
Changes to the [[Community_Council/Election_process|election process]] require a [http://maemo.org/vote referendum].

=== Current referenda ===

=== Previous referenda ===

In order to repair special cases in MCC rules, and bring them into alignment with HFC rules, the following: ([[Community Council/council rules referendum#MCC Rule List|MCC Rule List]]) Shall become ([[Community Council/council rules referendum#HFC Rule List|HFC Rule List]]), and the Maemo Community Council will from now on be transformed into Hildon Foundation Council. Yes or No?

Follow the discussion here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1330915

Dedicated wiki page here: [[Community Council/council rules referendum|Council Rules Amendment Referendum]]

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

* [[Community Council/Voting rights Q1 2009 | Who should have voting rights for the next community council elections?]]
* [[Community Council/Council voting rights | Who should have voting rights for all future community council elections?]]
* [[Community Council/Counting methods | How should ballots be counted in community council elections?]]

== Community Council Elections ==

=== Current election ===
* [[Community Council/Council_election_Q4_2014|Material from Q4 2014 election]]

=== Past Elections ===
* [[Community Council/Council election Q2 2014|Material from Q2 2014 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q4 2013|Material from Q4 2013 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q2 2013|Material from Q2 2013 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q4 2012|Material from Q4 2012 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2008|Material from Q3 2008 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1 2009|Material from Q1 2009 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2009|Material from Q3 2009 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1 2010|Material from Q1 2010 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2010|Material from Q3 2010 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1 2011|Material from Q1 2011 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2011|Material from Q3 2011 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1/2 2012|Material from Q1/2 2012 election]]

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 # The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
 # The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
-# If fewer than 6 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
+# If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
-# If there are fewer than 4 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
+# If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
 ## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
-## If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 4 candidates; the outgoing council will decide - in conjunction with Hildon Foundation Board of Directors - 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.
+## 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.
 # Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
 ## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.