On czw 27 wrz 2012 12:34:53 CEST, Lucas Maneos <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 09:42:44AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > Personally, I see lack of candidates for Maemo Council as obvious
> > thing - after all, we're going to have Board of Directors, which, for
> > all intents and purposes, is Council with elevated permissions
> > (powers).
>
> It shouldn't be that at all. The board's duty is to run the
> organisation, obtain and manage funding, manage the maemo.org handover,
> make agreements for hosting and other services etc. Even if they want
> to, they probably won't have much time to deal with day-to-day community
> things.
>
> > That part is OK, and I'm not criticizing it. What I'm sceptical about,
> > is keeping Council at all - as separate, strange, powerless
> > "something".
>
> It was always powerless ;-) The Council's mission is to "represent the
> Maemo community's best interests, and to act as a community conduit for
> Nokia-generated information"[1]. Just s/Nokia/Hildon Foundation/ when
> Nokia walks away.
>
> L.
>
> [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council
Sure, that's they theory. Yet, in practice, we had ~240 people voting during
last election, and probably, something like ~100 this time.
In such situation, do You really think, that we need 5 person body to represent
Community interest to Board of Directors?
Well, considering, how Hildon Foundation is created, it's quite natural, that
BoD is representing Community (Hildon's Foundation Community), and there is no
need for middle-man, unless we want to create "positions" just for the sake of
it. It's the thing, that count for 0 candidates for Council, in my opinion.
After all, we have candidates for BoD (only two as for now, but still).
BTW, I'm aware that Council was "powerless" always - again, in theory. Practice
- including handover of infrastructure, that is currently ongoing, and
maintained by Council - is quite different thing. And, to make things clear -
as by "powerless", I mean influence on Maemo, at all - not some "powergames",
etc. It's just that current "powers" (aka representing Community) goes naturaly
and seamlesly into BoD.
/Estel
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