Hi Larry,
thanks for your questions. Concerning your statement "I must be such a
new-be!" - maybe with regard to the proper use of stuff like salutations
(and stuff like that) in emails ;-)
The election we talked about addressed several seats in the Community
Council. As you may know, OpenOffice.org is a huge project with many
participants - both individuals and companies. The aim of the Community
Council is to represent the "will" of all these members and to provide
proposals how to deal with ideas / issues / problems for all
participants.
For example, I am one of the "Product Development Representatives" for
non-code contributing members (e.g. QA, UX, ...) for a certain amount of
time. That means, people who think that I am capable / willing of doing
so confirmed that by voting. More precisely, a defined group of people
are the "constituency", e.g.:
Product Development Representatives: Category leads, project
leads and co-leads of all OpenOffice.org projects (accepted and
incubator) but not from the native-lang category or l10n
project.
The voting is done via the OpenOffice.org survey server. Since the votes
(by the named individuals) are not open to everyone, there are observers
who take care that everything works as expected and that we follow
certain rules.
You may notice that I talked about constituencies, observers, voting
mechanism stuff and things like that - basically, this is based on
detailed rules. So why is this so complicated?
As I already said, we - the Community Council - aim to represent the
will of the whole community. That means, that we also depend on input by
every community member ... like you! Thus, we have to make sure that the
people representing "you" are elected by a fair and transparent process.
Especially, since working in the Community Council is sometimes a tough
job to keep balance (strategy, politics, ...). Even if you sometimes
don't notice it :-)
Some more information can be found here...
The Community Council website (background information, members):
http://council.openoffice.org/
The Community Council charter (purpose, power, representatives):
http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html
The Community Council election wiki (2010-03):
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Elections/2010-03
I hope that answers most of your questions. If you have more - don't
hesitate to ask!
Cheers,
Christoph
Am Donnerstag, den 22.04.2010, 09:38 -0700 schrieb Larry Kerr:
> What election? Where? I did not vote for anyone! I must be such a new-be!
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> From: Charles-H. Schulz<mailto:[email protected]>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:34 AM
> Subject: [dev] Re: [native-lang] Results for the Community Council
> Elections (2010-03)
>
>
> Congratulations Olivier and Thorsten!
>
> Charles-H. Schulz.
>
> Le Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:12:46 -0400,
> Christoph Noack <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a
> écrit :
>
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > the results of the elections held earlier this month are now
> > available. Two of the three candidates have been confirmed to
> > represent "you" in the Community Council. Unfortunately, one member
> > hasn't been confirmed in his role. But first the detailed results ...
> >
> > >>> Native Language Confederation Representative
> >
> > Candidate: Olivier Hallot
> > Results: 36 Yes, 2 No (116)
> >
> > >>> Code Contributor Representative
> >
> > Candidate: Eike Rathke
> > Results: 57 Yes, 0 No (69)
> >
> > >>> Product Development Representative
> >
> > Candidate: Thorsten Behrens
> > Results: 12 Yes, 28 No (50)
> >
> >
> > The observers, Sophie Gautier and Drew Jensen have all approved and
> > confirmed the results. My thanks to them and to Stefan Taxhet, who
> > managed the voting apparatus that allowed us to vote.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming Olivier and Eike! I have no doubt they are
> > all quite familiar to you, and I and everyone else on the Council,
> > hope that you will grow more familiar with them and the working of the
> > Council. The time in the Council gives us the chance to develop a good
> > relationship.
> >
> > And this good relationship is also true with regard to Thorsten - we
> > all know him, respect him, and value his contributions. The
> > constituency of the "Product Development Representative" just
> > expressed their opinion that there might be another community member
> > who better fits this role. My personal thanks to Thorsten for being a
> > candidate!
> >
> > In the next Community Council meeting it will be decided how to
> > proceed with regard to the "Product Development Representative". Most
> > likely, the whole elections for this role will be re-done. Thus,
> > other community members might consider their nomination.
> >
> > If you want to know more about the current elections, the underlying
> > process, or the Community Council - please have a look at:
> >
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Elections/2010-03<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Elections/2010-03>
> >
> >
> > One last thing: Dear project leads, please forward this mail to your
> > project members if you think they are interested in. Thanks in
> > advance!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
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