[Ambassadors] Runoff election for Board seat has begun.

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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.

-Toshio
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