Entirely true story: This year, I fumble-fingered my votes on Board, and
realised I was just as happy with the outcome as if I had not. Great
candidates, and if the final board doesn't include me, I'll be happy that
the Board is made up of some really good people who'll do a lot for the
XSF. I mean, vote for me, of course, but actually if you vote for other
people we'll have a great Board anyway, so really just vote if you haven't
already.
Council also has great candidates, and I'm particularly happy that not only
have most of the existing (very good) Council continued, but the "new" slot
will be filled by Jerôme, who should have run for Council years ago. But
it's a massive disappointment to see that we, as members, don't have a
choice - this has been the case for a couple of years. It's nice that the
choice we don't have is a great choice, of course. But it'd be better if we
had multiple great choices.
So, two questions:
- If you're a "technical" XSF member - written XEPs, write code, review
stuff, active in the technical discussions - what stops you from running
for Council?
- How can we encourage and enable people to run for Council?
My answer to the first is actually simple enough - I've been out of the
loop for a couple of years, and now I'm laser-focused on the server-side
(and Metre barely counts as a server). Plus, been there and done that. And
finally, I worried about the commitment level - Council needs timely,
detailed, responses to things.
My answer to the second mostly depends on everyone else's answers to the
first, though...
Anyway, it'd be good if in a year's time, there's 7 or 8 people
volunteering for Council, like Board (bewilderingly) is now.
Dave.
