On Fri, Jul 7, 2006 at 09:53:36 +0200, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I just wanted to put a few thoughts out there as people contemplate > nominees and the elections for the Gentoo Council. I personally am on > the fence about running this year, because I think there are a lot of > talented people who *should* be on the council. > > Now that I've said that (the "*should*" bit), let me expand on its > meaning a little. I think the Council idea is great. However, I think > the Council should be charged with a little bit of direction-setting and > leadership as well. In the past year, the council did make some > decisions, and helped to mediate some controversial issues. > > There were a couple of things which I thought were lacking, however: > > 1. The council was (by design?) a reactive force, rather than a > pro-active force. > > 2. There's no way to follow through on the Council's decisions. > > I think these points involve *every* gentoo developer (and would-be > developer) and not just the Council. If you have a GLEP or an idea and > it gets approved by the council, now what? That's the thing: follow > through on it! A question is, perhaps, should the council follow-up with > previously approved GLEPs and inquire as to status updates? > > For an exemplar of the way I think the council should be is > Spanky/vapier. Solar also does this well. Both of them take a > leadership role in general in the project and are generally respected > and admired for it. They both have great ideas and a vision. I think > that should be explored further. This project needs some leadership, as > the events of the past few months show fairly clearly.
Encouraged by this email and hoping that it is ok to do so, I will nominate myself. Thanks, /Alexandre -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Please copy me in your ~/.signature.
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