Johannes, all, Le Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:34:42 +0100, "Johannes A. Bodwing" <jo...@arcor.de> a écrit :
> Hi Ian, > > ... > >> > >> And they are not equal. That's my problem with it at the moment. > >>> I don't really understand how this democratic-meritocratic > >>> principle works. And what you explain below with Microsoft, for > >>> me it is not meritocratic or democratic that's an ethical aspect. > >>> > >> Democracy means that everyone has the potential to contribute, > > > > Democracy simply means representation of the people (community). > > Even established democracies don't have referendums on every issue. > > Party political systems mean that there are real limits to what any > > individual can contribute. I can't go and contribute directly to > > new legislation other than by saying what I think and hope it will > > influence someone. That is not really much different from a FOSS > > project. > > ... > > What you say about democracy, political parties eg is the today > situation. But eventually think about this: > Democratic systems have the power and lot of money for secret > "cyber-tasks", for a hidden worldwide web of information and > spy-systems and so on. They find it important, they give the money to > do it and they have the will to do it. That's possible but not a > better flow of information between citizens and politicians to create > a more real democracy. There is no "democratic-task", no > worldwide-web of democratic informations. There is no will to involve > more people in decisions or for the prefield of decisions. > What will I say with this? > Can we organize the structure of LO with examples in mind which have > not the will for transparancy? > Or must there be a thinking like: > ESC has the final decision, OK. > And for that, what are the best conditions that they have the best > informations to make the best decisions for the best (open) Office > Suite? Eventually this is one other task for the time after the phase > of beginning. > > Greetings, > Johannes > I would like to close down that thread now. We have bylaws that people were involved in and that have been stabilized: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws And we have lots of things that need to be done and require volunteers. Let me give you some pointers: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Produce http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing Among other things.. Happy hacking! -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
