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#redirect [[Community_Council]]
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== Proposal ==
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== Objective ==
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A process for electing a small "Community Council" should be created and elections held.
A process for electing a small "Community Council" should be created and elections held.
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Therefore —inspired by Debian's Project Leader concept— during the next [[100Days]], a process for electing a small "Community Council" should be created and elections held.
Therefore —inspired by Debian's Project Leader concept— during the next [[100Days]], a process for electing a small "Community Council" should be created and elections held.
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== The Community council ==
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== Draft ==
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This is the proposal for a Community Council based on the [[Task:Community Council|proposal]] from the [[100Days|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. Please see the [[Talk:Community_Council|talk page]] for discussion.
This is the proposal for a Community Council based on the [[Task:Community Council|proposal]] from the [[100Days|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. Please see the [[Talk:Community_Council|talk page]] for discussion.
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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), bring them to Nokia's attention, and seek to understand Nokia's position on these issues and help to explain it to the rest of the community.
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), bring them to Nokia's attention, and seek to understand Nokia's position on these issues and help to explain it to the rest of the community.
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The council will also serve to facilitate a dialog between Nokia and the community on these issues, holding monthly IRC meetings with Nokia representatives to discuss progress on existing issues and raise new issues.
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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.
==== Roles of the council ====
==== Roles of the council ====
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==== Elections ====
==== Elections ====
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The 5 council members will be elected by the community.
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* Nominations will be accepted 2 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a karma of 100 or above.
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* Elections last for 1 week.
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* Only community members with karma of 50 or above may vote.
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* Each community member gets one vote.
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* The 5 nominees with the most votes are elected.
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* 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.
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* There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-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.
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* The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
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* If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
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* If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
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** The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
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** 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.
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* Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
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** Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
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** The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
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** Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.
==== Operations ====
==== Operations ====
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* Distill community issues to bring to Nokia's attention.
* Distill community issues to bring to Nokia's attention.
* Help manage community involvement (e.g. [[Maemowiki Action Group]], [[100Days]] and [[2010 Agenda]])
* Help manage community involvement (e.g. [[Maemowiki Action Group]], [[100Days]] and [[2010 Agenda]])
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== Election ==
 
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The first election will take place between 3/9/2008 and 10/9/2008. Voting will be open to all members of the community who have an account on maemo.org for more than 3 months on the 10/9/2008 - that is, on 10/6/2008. Candidatures opened on 14/8/2008, and will close on 2/9/2008 at 23:59 UTC. Candidatures should be sent to maemo-community@maemo.org mentioning maemo username, real name, company affiliation and reasons for wanting to be on the council.
 
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* [[Task:Community Council/Eligible candidates | Eligible candidates]]
 
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* [[Task:Community Council/Candidate declarations | Candidate declarations for the inaugural community council elections]]
 
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* [[Task:Community Council/Eligible voters | Eligible voters]]
 

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