I agree, random people can't have the same influence on votes like the people actually seriously involved, but like Sri and Marco said, there are already existing cases in which such a system can be very useful.
Seif offered to try it with the Gnome Music team, but anyone else who wants to give it a try is very welcome too. I couldn't set up an account because I don't personally belong to any team so I can't speak for a whole team, but signing up is quite easy: we just need to fill a form for beta-testing it (currently all organizations using loomio are considered "private beta testers", although it is already used successfully by organizations of all sizes): https://www.loomio.org/group_requests/new Anatoly On ג', 2013-04-16 at 23:30 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:08 +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: > > So you want to have random people suddenly join, be of the decision and > > have equal say? I find that a little bit weird. > > > > As opposed to the method that we have now which is..? > > (I cannot speak for all teams, as I'm not in all teams. > Anybody feel free to correct me please.) > > Most teams have meetings sometimes, mostly IRC based (though some also > have phone or Google Hangouts as far as I know). > Except for board and release-team, team membership is not exclusive / > defined, and (except for board) meetings are public. Newcomers and > lurkers are welcome to meetings and to provide input to influence > decisions, but when it comes to "hard" voting (if decision making > process is not consense-based) I'd expect only "established" people to > feel like taking part anyway, or at least expect their votes to have way > more weight. In the end that's how I understand meritocracy. > > Also see section "5.5.2 Community" of > http://www.dgsiegel.net/foss-development-processes > > andre _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
