Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: reopen nominations

[M. J. Everitt]

On 17/04/18 00:23, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> I for one am going to be interviewing each candidate before I cast my vote.
>
> I have only one voice but I'm going to do my best to make it count.
>
> How seriously though do people ask questions of the candidates before
> voting?  How much is it a popularity contest and how much is it actual
> research on who would be best for the job?
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:29 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote:
>> On 16/04/18 23:23, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Thode
>>> <prometheanfire@g.o> wrote:
>>>> Just because you lose does not mean you should stop trying.
>>> That wasn't my point but I guess I wasn't clear enough. Our foundation
>>> and council elections work sub-optimally, to put it mildly. It's no
>>> secret they are beauty contests where the wrong persons get elected
>>> for the wrong reasons. You and three others are exceptions to that
>>> rule over more than a decade on both trustees and council. That's not
>>> much.
>>>
>>> As for trying again, the one and only reason I ran was that I had been
>>> asked by somebody whom I trust a lot. The latter is what I'm pretty
>>> sure won't happen again. Or rather, I hope it doesn't.
>>>
>> I suspect the only way this will change, is for a forced all-dev and/or
>> all-foundation-member vote, either of 'no confidence' in the council, or
>> some equivalent there-of. If there isn't a decent quorum, any ballot is
>> likely to be ineffective, as the usual 6% will do their usual and the
>> status-quo is once again ratified de-facto.
>>
As a point of common mailing-list netiquette, Raymond, please
re-configure your mail client to Bottom post messages (Reply below
quote) rather than top-posting .. even if its just for the Gentoo
mailing lists (this can be done, eg. in Thunderbird).

Thank you.