Re: Draft election rules, announcement

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Bart Decrem <bart eazel com> writes:

> I wonder if that ends up creating classes of candidates: the 'elders' who
> are nominated by others and us mere mortals who need to fend for
> ourselves.  Also, it could generate a love-fest of people nominating all
> their favorite hackers.  It creates an administrative burden (making sure
> people would be willing to serve).  But modulo all that, I like the idea
> :)

It may also discourage people from nominatim themselves when there are
already 11 people who were all "approved" by others.

> So I prefer to have people nominate themselves, and tell us why we should
> vote for them.  The lovefest can kick in after people nominate themselves
> (you can go cheer for them or something).

Well, if someone feels that some particular person should be on the board
he can always ask this person to candidate ....

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Martin Baulig
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