rm | LJ Advisory Board Elections: LJ United

As part of the LJ Advisory Board elections, I want to point you all to

ljunited which was founded by someone you all probably at least know of,

insomnia who has long be a voice of reason, passion and technical knowledge here in the world of LJ.

ljunited was founded in reaction to LJ's many broken promises to the userbase and after some tough questions and good discussion they've endorsed my candidacy for the LJ Advisory Board.

One of our big concerns right now is that the issues oriented candidates may split the votes amongst themselves while folks who are very popular or have candidacies that don't address issues people find stressful and emotional walk away with it. We are trying to work together to make sure this doesn't happen, and whatever happens with the election want to make sure we create a unified block to speak out as the userbase relationship with LJ/SUP moves forward.

So, I'd encourage all of you to join

ljunited for the election and beyond. Also,

squeaky19 has just joined us. He's the fellow who runs IJ, and has a lot to say to those of us with concerns about the status of LJ's code, and open source and journal migration issues.

Meanwhile, while I'm a decent designer when working for others, the idea of branding myself for this campaign all by my lonely is a little daunting. So if anyone wants to offer suggestions, advice, designs, images, graphics, etc., I'd love to see them.

Additionally, I'll be in Sicily May 17 - 25 studying swordsmanship, but have found a way to make sure I deliver at least one election-related issue post each day during that time. I'm taking suggestions for issues you'd like to see addressed in those and also reminding people that I'll need help getting the word out about said posts both in general and particularly during that time.

So what can you do right now to support this candidacy and an LJ that is both viable as a corproate entity and respectful of its users?

- join

ljunited
- If you haven't already posted in support of my nomination, do so here: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_election_en/836.html as momentum is critical to any battle of this sort.
- Talk about

ljunited and/or my candidacy in my journal.
- Help out in the above mentioned graphic design context.
- Talk to me about your LJ concerns, especially if you're part of a constituency I'm less familiar with -- hearing technical concerns and concerns from non-US users would be a big help to me right now.

Once we have some campaign materials together and once voting opens there will be more to do, but this is a huge start.

Thank you!