On 13/11/2007, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Stephen Lau wrote: > > Well, both Glynn and I have felt that voting should be a requested > > privilege rather than a responsibility. In other words, people should > > apply for the right to vote: this ensures high voter turnout, and > > ensures that people voting are responsible and willing voters. > > How about we try this for the desktop community, and do a trial run to see how > it works? I'd be happy to come up with a simple form for people to fill in > similar to GNOME's - > > http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/application.php > > and get a few people from the community approving them? Given that we have 2 > roles in the constitution currently, one for contributor and the other for > core > contributor, we need some way of dividing them. Anyone have any thoughts?
That seems like a great idea. However, who will the applications go to, and how will they view them? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
