So no one will think I'm complicit in any way with whatever happens, I'm going to disclose here part of an email Woody sent to a few people four days ago:
Luckily, the nonprofit doesn't have to follow maemo's rules and doesn't have to have the same election. Why don't we just proceed now with the people who have already self-nominated and haven't withdrawn their self-nomination? Each of those people is a present or former maemo council member and can't be seriously objected to. It's apparent at this time that we've reached out to the existing community. [...] I think we did the right thing to show we were inclusive of the community by throwing open the board for nominations.
Your implied accusation, that I'm some how am trying to "rig" things so I get in is not only insulting, but frankly as far from the truth as can be. I frankly have no desire to be on the Board, given my work levels in the next few months. I stated that explicitly when I ran, which I did mainly in case there were not enough candidates (there were only 2 at the time) and to prevent auto-selection in the event of someone else randomly jumping in... As soon as we were at 6 candidates, and again when we were down to 5, I debated pulling my name. I haven't done so because I didn't want to add further confusion, or make it look like everyone was suddenly abandoning ship. I even posted this reasoning on TMO, asking others to vote for people who can dedicate the time needed (explicitly, not me), now that we will only have 3 directors. If I am elected, I will very likely vote in the bylaws...