On 06/13/2012 04:24 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:17:23PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
On 06/12/2012 04:34 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Well there are several aspects of the election process that don't seem
fair and reasonable to me from general and community perspective so
let's agree on disagreeing on this topic.
In essence I would think we would want to have the greatest diversity in
our governing structure otherwise this election will essential still
just be popularity contest and feel unwelcome ( and with impossible odds
) to new people that want to participate in it.
I would think it was a fair rule to be able to run for all governing
body's ( as long as you are not serving in one ) then choose which one
you will serve should you get elected to more then one and the runner(s)
up would grab that/those seat(s) that the individual chose to leave behind.
And in addition to the above I feel that we should have a limit on how
many terms the same individual can serve in the same governing body to
ensure we always have rotation on new people that bring in fresh
perspective, fresh approaches and fresh ideas in those governing body's.
If we consistently had a /lot/ of candidates who were being passed
over by the "popular" ones, maybe you'd have an argument. Given that
we're seeing a struggle to get /anybody/ to fill the open seats and
are often voting where there is 1 extra candidate beyond seats to
fill I really don't thing adding any additional barriers to those
seats is going to improve matters.
I can see his point with FESCo, actually. But I don't know that the changes
proposed here would "fix" it.
The only way to find out is to implement it and measure the outcome then
revisit the proposal after at least what three release cycles?
We have a "fail safe" if there wont be enough nominees for any governing
body elections and that is the FPL can fill the seats and those can be
filled in with anyone including individuals that either are with the
same company ( if we would implement the corporate restriction proposal
) or if an individual has reached the limit on how many terms he can sit
within a given governing body ( limit number of terms/consecutive terms
proposal ) or if it's an individual that is currently sitting in a
governing body ( limit individual to being only able to serve in a
single governing body at a time proposal ).
In essence whomever the FPL appoints supersedes any election rules we
might have put in place should the need for him to arise to start
appointing people in the first place.
JBG
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