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They are not really overdue, the expectation is that we would have
another revisit of the Council at the one year point, which is in
October.<br>
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One complication has been that we are still trying to find the
correct financial and legal home for Thunderbird, as I discussed in
a posting in July to this list. I've had discussions with several
open source sponsorship organizations in the last couple of months,
and also as I discussed in that email, Software Freedom Conservancy
is still the leading candidate.<br>
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The interaction with Council elections is that whatever group we
affiliate with is likely to have at least expertise on this kind of
governance issue, if not specific requirements as to how it is done.
So that gives us an incentive to put off as long as possible putting
a structure in place, hoping that whoever we affiliate with can play
a role in getting that organized.<br>
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What I expect, based on the experience at the Summit, is that the
design of process to choose the Council will be controversial, but
the actual candidate list will not be. Call me chicken, but getting
a third party to help with the process will make it easier. But the
real hard part is getting qualified people to serve and participate
at all, not choosing among qualified candidates with differing
perspectives.<br>
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The time may come where a major controversy requires resolving, so
the process needs to be established and will be. But don't be
surprised if October comes and we delay revisiting the Council for a
few months while we settle the legal and financial sponsorship
issue. The Council governance is not the top priority here.<br>
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:rkent<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/24/2015 1:18 PM, Benjamin Kerensa
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">As I understand it reelections for council appear to
be overdue is there any plan to have them?<br>
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