General Meeting

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Yesterday the student club of my college had its annual General Meeting
(GM) which was compulsory for everyone, including postgrads (who usually
don't have to attend the normal GMs).  Due to an extremely inefficient
procedure (to elect the new student club), the current president managed to
have a GM which started at 7.30pm and lasted until a bit after midnight &mdash;
more than 4.5 hours!  This means that we (250 students) spent a total of
1125 hours just on deciding who's going to do work next year.  Given that
we elected about 10 people, they have to work over 100 hours just to match
the amount of time we needed to elect them.  This just doesn't sound right
to me&hellip;&ensp;(Fortunately, I realized before the first break that it will
take ages and got my laptop and started reviewing some New Maintainer
applications.)

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