Re: side-note Re: [steering-discuss] chairmen

2011-10-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-10-30 20:07: Florian. It is good to have these issues dealt with. There is no need to apologise for 'spam' as it is all relevant and important stuff. If these issue weren't raised today they would have to be raised another day and they are the type of thing

Re: [steering-discuss] chairmen

2011-10-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Andre Schnabel wrote on 2011-10-31 16:52: I'm fine with the model - jus wanted to say, that there still bneeds to be avote. ok, that's true - but that's what I meant with "nominate". :-) IMHO, the statutes foresee no detailed voting rules like for the BoD or MC elections. Seems I will

Re: [steering-discuss] minutes of conf-call 2011-10-29 ...

2011-10-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Michael Meeks wrote on 2011-10-31 12:51: Sorry for the delay, weekend got in the way, no doubt this is not the canonical location for these, but ... hopefully someone can fix that for me. Action items are prefixed with 'AA'. thanks! Added this to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org

[steering-discuss] minutes of conf-call 2011-10-29 ...

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, Sorry for the delay, weekend got in the way, no doubt this is not the canonical location for these, but ... hopefully someone can fix that for me. Action items are prefixed with 'AA'. Thanks, Michael. Present: Andre, Andreas, Bjoern, Thorsten,

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011-10-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Michael Meeks wrote on 2011-10-31 11:41: a) it -may- allow us to setup the foundation more quickly, at least we are not blocking on a fairly artificial timeline I think if so, it just would delay two weeks, IMHO noncritical after this amount of time. b) i

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 13:28 -0200, David Emmerich Jourdain wrote: > > - In a nutshell, this means: We either can decide to nominate the current > > MC as the first MC and have a "gentlemen's agreement" that they step back > > as soon as the foundation is in place, leading to new elections about 45

Re: [steering-discuss] freezing membership applications

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 10:34 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Not really - it's 3 weeks from candidate introduction to end of > election, compared to 2 weeks for the usual MC meeting cadence. Except we just had another election that also froze the membership ;-) did we re-open that in betw

Re: [steering-discuss] appointing Thorsten as election officer for MC

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 16:27 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > As Thorsten is elected BoD member, he is not running for an MC seat, and > thus should have no conflict of interest in acting as election officer. +1. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot --

Re: [steering-discuss] freezing membership applications

2011-10-31 Thread Jesús Corrius
Hi all, > Not really - it's 3 weeks from candidate introduction to end of > election, compared to 2 weeks for the usual MC meeting cadence. > > I agree that there are no strong, hard arguments for or against > either procedure, I just have the impression it appears much cleaner > to suspend MC wor

Re: [steering-discuss] freezing membership applications

2011-10-31 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On the other hand, freezing completely the membership process during > election is not very nice for new potential members, as it would mean > extending by 1 to 2 month the 'waiting period' of the one that picked > a bad date to start contributing :-) > Not really - it's

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011-10-31 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: > >With the caveat that Thorsten must resign as MC-deputy, since one > >cannot be BoD and MC member at once. > > good point, indeed. Thorsten, in case you get voted as election > officer, would you step back from your MC deputy role? > Hi Florian, all, yes indeed, as a