Re: [board-discuss] Re: Short Résumé (was: Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates)
On September 3, 2020 11:59:14 AM PDT, Andreas Mantke wrote: >Hi all, > >a short résumé: > >a) there are 13 candidates for the MC elections and only 8 are >able/willing to answer two short questions. > >Many thanks to all of this eight candidates to take your time and give >your personal view! > > >b) TDF currently has 221 members and none of them asked any question to >the candidates! > >That's something to think long and hard about. What does this mean to >the democratic culture of the foundation. It was created to get the >members / contributors a voice and a say. This is something we have a bit of a problem of in the Arch Linux community as well when a community member applies to become a Trusted User (i.e. a packager in the [community] repository). Existing TUs vet the applicant's package quality and fitness. Sometimes barely any discussion comes during the two-week discussion period. I am guilty of letting this slide as well. We have not really solved the problem past the occasional reminder of our duties. I think this problem is more generally one of doing thankless, "minor" - yet important - work in volunteer communities. I do not pretend to know how to solve this for everyone. Personally, I find that an occasional reminder of my duties in my occupied post keeps the easily-forgotton tasks somewhat near the front of my brain. I would be happy to discuss general topics with all my friends, such as our opinions of TDF's strengths and weaknesses to encourage a healthy stir of the pot. But I encourage community members to ask questions or voice their opinion! Voters possibly already know the candidates well enough that questions don't add any value to an already-formulated opinion. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: Short Résumé (was: Re: [board-discuss] Questions To MC Candidates)
Hi all, a short résumé: a) there are 13 candidates for the MC elections and only 8 are able/willing to answer two short questions. Many thanks to all of this eight candidates to take your time and give your personal view! b) TDF currently has 221 members and none of them asked any question to the candidates! That's something to think long and hard about. What does this mean to the democratic culture of the foundation. It was created to get the members / contributors a voice and a say. Regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Membership Committee elections voting tokens sent
Dear Community, the mail with the token and invitation to vote for the new Membership Committee has been sent out to all members. It was sent with the subject "Your The Document Foundation 2020 Membership Committee Elections Voting Token" and the sender is "electi...@documentfoundation.org" Please don't forget to check your spam folder too, in case you do not see the mail. If that message with the instructions and the token is missing, please reach us at electi...@documentfoundation.org and/or contact with me as soon as possible. We'll take action to solve the issue. The voting phase will be from *Friday, 2020-09-04, 00:00 CEST/UTC+2* (i.e. beginning of the day 04) until *Thursday, 2020-09-10, 24:00 CEST/UTC+2* (i.e. end of the day 10). A list of candidates and their reasons for running is available at https://elections.documentfoundation.org/2020-mc/candidates.html . Your participation in voting the new MC members is highly appreciated! Best of luck to all candidates, and thank you for running for elections! Franklin -- Franklin Weng Deputy chairman, Board of Director & Member, Certification Committee The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature