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On 06/18/2013 03:47 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 06/18/2013 09:15 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013
> 14:55:40 +0200 hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> A tiny idea to improve the council just came to my mind: 1-2 
>>>> representatives of the user community should be voted in. IMO
>>>> there are a enough well known personalities in #gentoo,
>>>> #gentoo-chat, from the forums or elsewhere.
> The last time something like that was tried, we ended up with a
> bunch of non-Gentoo-using prolific Off The Wall posters being
> selected. That didn't exactly work out well.
> 
> -- Ciaran McCreesh
> 
> I was going to caution against this too.  I've had similar
> experiences on college committees where faculty invited students to
> participate. They really didn't understand the issues and wasted
> our time with non-sequitors.  It was probably equally frustrating
> to them because they tried but could not contribute.  I understand
> that some contributors are more active than some devs, but how
> would the process differentiate?
> 


That proposal cannot stand alone. Please respond to the concept I was
pointing out, not a single point.
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