On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Paul Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Cool, I'm glad this idea has developed. So what do you think about
> opening up each term as a way for a developer to lead the whole team?
I'd certainly hope that nominees would advocate what they'd bring to
the role in a style similar to that of the Debian Project Leader
elections:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/platforms/he
http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/platforms/hertzog
http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/platforms/93sam
...although *much* less wordy and not quite so adversial :-)
> Kind of like our periodic Steve Jobs that helps to steer the project
> for the term and heads development.
An interesting idea, how do you see it working in practice? Flesh it
out a bit on the discussion page and people can get involved in
hammering out the details:
https://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Task:Community_Council
> If we get enough in support this
> person could even get some of the donations to the project as a sort
> of head developer. It would be like an open source vacation. :)
Heh, that'd be very cool. I suspect the practicalities might kill it -
at least in the short term :-)
> I really think we could open up positions in a way that would be
> filled by volunteers, but more similar to how a commercial or
> non-profit project is run. As I've said, I'm totally interested in
> taking a creative directive role and helping to guide interface
> development, icons, themeing, etc. I also have ideas for innovating
> in terms of industrial design.
This sounds like a role in developing Maemo itself, and certainly fits
with my own thoughts on increasing the maemo.org community in Maemo
development; but a lot of the ball for that is in Nokia's court[1]. I
would hope this is something the council COULD push for, and that
people who really wanted to see it happen WOULD push for it if they:
a) stood for election
and b) got elected
Of course, this is all assuming we go ahead with some form of
Community Council, which - as I said - I think will require some clear
indication of consensus in the community for it to be taken seriously.
Cheers,
Andrew
[1] https://wiki.maemo.org/Increasing_transparency
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