Thanks for sharing, I didn't know this council exists,
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Jörg Knobloch <jo...@jorgk.com> wrote: > Dear mailing list subscriber, dear Mozillian and friend of Thunderbird, > > The next Thunderbird Council election is coming up. The Thunderbird > Council is proposing that this time people eligible to vote and to stand as > candidates need to be on an electoral roll. We propose a very simple > measure to include people on the electoral roll: Dedication to the > Thunderbird project as expressed by contributions. We suggest to include > people who over a two year timespan 2015-2016 have dedicated at least 20 > hours to the project. > > Contribution can be any of the following: Triaging, fixing or reviewing > bugs, giving support on SUMO or other forums, localising, testing and > writing or reviewing add-ons. Simply subscribing to tb-planning will not > give anyone the right to vote, but active participation in discussions will. > > This very simple rule will spare us any complicated metric, like, this > many patches submitted, this many BMO or SUMO comments written, author of > add-on with this many users, etc. > > Since we already know the people who are dedicating time, their most > precious asset, to Thunderbird, I have prepared a preliminary electoral > roll. So far I have enrolled about 100 people, see > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Council_Elections_2017. *People who > are not on the preliminary roll can contact me and ask to be included, > mentioning their contribution. The idea is not to make it hard to be on the > electoral roll.* > > A few comments: > > *This is a proposed list following the proposed rules.* If we decide > during the course of the discussion that we want a different set of rules, > the list will of course change. > > Whilst I know contributors who show up on BMO, it is harder to include > those who don't. I don't know all the add-on authors, so I have included > the authors of the most popular add-ons which have had updates during > 2015/2016. I also don't know may support people or localisers. So if your > name is not on the list, please don't take offence, I didn't deliberately > ignore or undervalue your contribution. > > For 12 SUMO contributors nominated by fellow councillor Matt Harris I > don't have e-mail addresses. Please supply your e-mail addresses or you > won't be able to vote. > > Repeating: *Please self-nominate if I missed to include you!* > > Further comments? > > -- > Jörg Knobloch > Thunderbird Developer (Thunderbird, Compose and Mailnews Editor and MIME > peer) - Member of the Thunderbird Council > > _______________________________________________ > dev-l10n mailing list > dev-l...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-l10n > -- San Emmanuel James Community Lead, Mozilla Uganda Email: sanja...@mozilla-uganda.org Tel. +256775955559, +256711955559 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Innovation, Openness and Opportunity on the open web. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
