Council Elections

[Joseph Price]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 19:47 +0100, Martin Meredith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:16 +0100, Joseph Price wrote:
> > Announced at the latest ubuntu-irc meeting that we are going to be going
> > through the process of electing some new council members.
> > 
> > The process I outlined at the meeting was only an idea, and I think I
> > tried to put across the message that I would be writing it to this ML
> > when decided on, including deadlines. (My fault if I didn't make this
> > clear enough)
> > 
> > We're just talking with the CC atm to work out the finer details, and as
> > soon as that's done, we'll post it here.
> > 
> > Finally, as I said at that meeting, please only nominate yourselves at
> > this time. If you really want to nominate someone else, tell them, and
> > get them to nominate themselves if they want to run for it. Comments on
> > wiki pages/to email lists will then probably follow.
> > 
> > Pricey
> 
> Just a thought - isn#t the election procedure a bit broken?
> 
> I mean by having the line.
> 
> - The nominees support from at least one active IRC Council member
> (essential) 
> 
> Isn't this a bit broken? what if for some reason, the whole Council
> Quits?
> 
> 
We still have enough of a Council left (active... 3 of us) for this to
not be an issue.