Council - the politically selected governance body responsible for managing the proposal system for the benefit of voters.

At the heart of the governance process on the platform is the proposal system, which allows anyone to submit some suggestion for changing the state or policy of the platform in some way. These proposals are processed and voted on by a council, where the participants are referred to as council members. A seat on the council is on through an election process, and lasts for some period of time until a new selection. Now this period is one week.

More information about the Council you can find here.

Elections occur periodically, and each one has a sequence of stages referred to as the election cycle. Stages are: announcing period, voting period and revealing period. Here you can see the number of current elections, period remaining length and the Election stage.

Let's see what the consuls are responsible for:

• Discuss the meaning and merits of incoming proposals, covering a broad range of topics
• Vote on proposals (for example, hiring Working Group leaders, budget and funding decisions as well as many others).
• Represent the community members and your constituency to make day-to-day operations decisions

Requirements:

• Proficiency with basic data analysis and sufficient reputation and standing within the community to earn supporting votes in elections from other platform members
• A deep understanding of the Joystream platform structure, function and resource allocation
• Hold sufficient amount of the native platform token to put at stake (11 000 tJOY).

Elections are held once a week on Thursdays. You can apply by following the link. Applications for elections are accepted within a day from the moment of their opening.

Announcing period

1. Before you apply, you need to show\announce yourself in the Discord in the General section or you can write to @freakstatic. He is the most experienced council member. Also you can take part in the daily calls of consuls at 21:00 (UTC+3) in Discord on the #council-calls voice channel. To become more familiar with the duties of the consul.

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1. After that, you can apply for election to Consuls. Сlick on the “Election in progress” button

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1. Then announce you candidacy

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