Re: Nomination process

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 10/27/05, Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:54:53 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>
> > To: foundation-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Nomination process
> >
> > On Thu, October 27, 2005 04:06, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > Irrespecitve of the board size is there anything which could be done to
> > > improve the nomination process?
> >
> > Every member has the right to nominate herself/himself for the elections.
> > I don't think we want to change this :-)
>
> Amazing how you manage to put your point across as a criticism.
>
> The constant negativity from developers is very discouraging, please
> consider how you say things.  :(

Um, perhaps I missed something...where was Vincent negative or criticizing?

> > What I would love to see, though, is candidates announcing their candidacy
> > sooner. It's really not good to see there's not enough candidates one hour
> > before the deadline. But only candidates can change this.
>
> Seems you do actually agree there is something which could be done to
> improve the process which is the whole point of what I was asking.