User talk:Dneary

2012-10-26T07:06:28Z

87.231.148.186: /* Testing tables */

User talk:Dneary

2012-10-26T07:05:51Z

87.231.148.186: Undo revision 50471 by 188.143.232.12 (Talk)

== Testing tables ==

[http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8990 bug #8990]

{|
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream
|}

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{| class="wikitable"
|Orange
|Apple
|-
|Bread
|Pie
|-
|Butter
|Ice cream
|}

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Hi,

I tried to create a wiki page as suggested in this thread : [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46187 Cleaning N900 FUD]. Would you mind to create a page where you see fit so that I can start to fill it up with questions and answers. Thank you. --[[User:mandor|mandor]] 22:52, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Dave,

I was referring to [http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=550967&postcount=1 Qgil's post]. I have created the [http://wiki.maemo.org/What_can_we_realistically_expect wiki page] but didn't link it to any category. I will link it, as you suggested, to "Nokia N900" and "User FAQ".

Thanks for your help. --[[User:mandor|mandor]] 14:24, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Testing new messages again.

Dave.

Community Council/Election process

2012-05-16T16:41:12Z

87.231.148.186: Add information on running an election

The 5 council members will be elected by the community.

# Nominations will be accepted 2 weeks before the election begins from any community member with a [[karma]] of 100 or above.
# Elections last for 1 week.
# Only community members who have had maemo.org accounts for over 3 months, and have karma of 10 or above, may vote.
# Each community member eligible to vote gets a single ballot.
# The 5 nominees voted for most, as counted by a single transferrable vote system are elected.
# Nominees with a professional interest in Maemo, such as working for Nokia - or any other company involved in Maemo-related software development - must declare their interest when advertising their nomination. Failure to do so may result in the Nokia Community Manager, or the outgoing Council, declaring their nomination invalid and so bar them from standing in the current election.
# There is no limit to the number of times a council member can stand for re-election.
# The date of the next election will be set by the council chair, not more than 6 months after the previous election.
# The election date must be publicised at least 1 month in advance of the election.
# If fewer than 5 candidates stand for election, the 3 with the most votes are elected to the council.
# If there are fewer than 3 candidates when the nominations close, the election cannot be held.
## The nomination period will be extended by 1 month and the election postponed similarly.
## If, after 1 month's delay, there are still fewer than 3 candidates; the outgoing council will decide - in conjunction with Nokia's Community Manager (currently Quim) - about how to proceed. The preferred solution is to encourage more members of the maemo.org community to participate and re-run the election, but ''all'' options are open.
# Changes to any of the above rules must be approved by community referendum.
## Voting in such referenda will be open to anyone eligible to vote in the council elections.
## The referendum options must be debated for a minimum of 1 month prior to the referendum.
## Referendum voting will be open for the same length of time as the council elections.

== Running an election ==

Running an election has several distinct phases:
* Agreeing on the election schedule and announcing it, as detailed above
* Validating candidate proposals for the election (requirement of >100 karma on the date the election is announced)
* [[maemo.org team/Creating an election|Creating the election]] in the system and sending out voting tokens
* Finally, [[maemo.org team/Generating election results|counting the election and announcing the results]]

The first and second phase is entirely the resonsibility of the outgoing community council. The third phase requires a list of maemo.org account holders at a certain date, and thus requires the intervention of someone with access to maemo.org infrastructure, and also requires access to a specific database on test.maemo.org, which again requires access. However, the access is only required for a small part of the step, and it is the council's responsibility to provide all of the information needed to create the election. The fourth step requires OpenSTV, a project licenced under the GPL, but which the author has decided to sell. It is difficult to find newer versions of OpenSTV online, even though the software is GPL v2 licenced. We should check and older version of OpenSTV into maemo2midgard to enable us to count elections reliably.

== Community Council Referenda ==
Changes to the [[Community_Council/Election_process|election process]] require a [http://maemo.org/vote referendum].

=== Current referenda ===

There are no current referenda.

=== Previous referenda ===

Three referenda were run from February 16 2009 until February 23 2009 to decide some procedural datas around elections.

* [[Community Council/Voting rights Q1 2009 | Who should have voting rights for the next community council elections?]]
* [[Community Council/Council voting rights | Who should have voting rights for all future community council elections?]]
* [[Community Council/Counting methods | How should ballots be counted in community council elections?]]

== Community Council Elections ==

=== Current election ===

* [[Community Council/Council election Q1/2 2012|Material from Q1/2 2012 election]]

=== Past Elections ===

* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2008|Material from Q3 2008 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1 2009|Material from Q1 2009 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2009|Material from Q3 2009 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1 2010|Material from Q1 2010 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2010|Material from Q3 2010 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q1 2011|Material from Q1 2011 election]]
* [[Community Council/Council election Q3 2011|Material from Q3 2011 election]]

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