Re: Council

Greets all,

In our last episode, Notha Joe said:
>Is the council permanent, or does this mailing list periodically hold
>elections?

        Now *there's* a funny story.  Since the council is five members
with two ghost members (or whatever they were called), it ended up that
just about everybody that accepted a nomination has a say.  (They don't
get a vote, but most matters are clear cut and don't require one.)  So,
there wasn't really a need for reelections.

        My hope was to have the entire list be an advisory group of sorts,
with open discussions and stuff, and then have a small council which made
sense of the nonsense and made final decissions on what goes where.  This
is how BtM worked, except the council was just me. :)  Dispite all the
voting and chartering and all the other formalities, I hoped that this
structure would evolve naturally.  (Just goes to show that fighters are
*not* a natural evolution of big ships. (:  Or anything else one feels
confident about.)  Sadly, it hasn't.  Oh well, never claimed to be one to
understand politics.

        Well, I hope that muddied up a perfectly simple question. :)
The short answer is:  there are supposed to be yearly elections, but we
decided not to have 'em, which doesn't matter since a year hasn't
passed anyway.

-Static

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