# The five members of staff

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/the-five-members-of-staff/25>\
**Category:** Open Source Design meta\
**Created:** [April 8, 2017, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/the-five-members-of-staff/25 "2017-04-08T09:17:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/the-five-members-of-staff/25/17 "2017-05-04T14:34:02Z")

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Let’s pick this up again to achieve clarity. We just kind of swept the whole admin question under the rug. However, I think it’s a very important question and since we want to use Discourse as one of our main communications platform it’s even more important.

We have some limitations and crucial information regarding admins:

- We can only have 5 since the platform is graciously hosted by [Discourse](http://www.discourse.org/) – thanks for that!
- Admins can obviously change settings, close topics, change everything about the site …
- Admins can read the private messages of any member and impersonate anyone, hence there needs to be a _very_ high level of trust: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-clearly-see-all-private-messages-of-all-users/26794](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admins-can-clearly-see-all-private-messages-of-all-users/26794)
- They are shown publicly at [https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/about](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/about)

I would suggest everyone nominates 5 people they absolutely trust to be admins of this forum, based on factors such as time of involvement, having met them in person or having had a call with them, history of good decisions, engagement in the community, organization of events, commitment to openness, etc.

My nominations are:

1. @evalica - long-term involvement, organization of the FOSDEM Open Source Design room 2017
2. @simonv3 - long-term involvement, website and overall organization work
3. @belenbarrospena - long-term involvement, organization of the first two FOSDEM Open Source Design rooms, job board submission form
4. @jdittrich - organization of the regular Berlin meetup, coordination work
5. @victoria-bondarchuk - organization of the FOSSASIA Design track, talks at different events

(I only did not nominate @bnvk because he specifically stated he does not want to be very involved in the forum.)

Your nominations please.

Current tally, sorted by votes:

- @jan 14 votes
- @evalica 13 votes
- @belenbarrospena 13 votes
- @simonv3 13 votes
- @jdittrich 12 votes
- @ei8fdb 4 votes
- @victoria-bondarchuk 3 votes (stated [she doesn’t necessarily want to be admin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/the-five-members-of-staff/25/20))
- @pdurbin 2 votes
- @elioqoshi 1 vote
- @bnvk 1 vote (stated he doesn’t want to be very involved inthe forum)

People who nominated already: @jan @belenbarrospena @simonv3 @victoria-bondarchuk @evalica @gilli @ei8fdb @jdittrich @eppfel @htietze @Xaviju @rioev @elioqoshi @ryangorley @Incabell @pdurbin  
People yet to nominate their 5 candidates: @grahamperrin @studiospring @rosanardila @guiguru @danila.pellicani … and you, if you read this 😉

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