On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, E L wrote:
And still there are a lot of extentions to the RFC, why limit ourselves in
the takanon to one specific
brand?Most servers supports many more and then you need to check every
command you use during the meeting
to see if it is compatible with the RFC.
That's a technicality. The idea is that you could join the discussion with
an RFC-comaptible client.
and the בלבד in the end of the sentence is out of place IMOH as it can be
read as making sure only people with who uses free IRC client can
participate.
The scope of the בלבד was for the words תכנה חופשית - meaning people
who
only use free software. This is to prevent using, say, an ActiveX control
by
saying that people who use Firefox on Windows can access it.
I know that what you mean, I'm just saying it can be understood in both ways
and therefore probebly be written in a more clear way.
Like hamakor only promise accibility to people which uses opensource
programs.
I rephrased that section in my updated version.
BTW in what langauge would the discussions be?what encoding would you use?
This is up to the board to announce before the assembly.
To prevent repeating problems I think Hebrew as single langauge should be
decided upon.
I don't think this should be sepecified, but I do not object to specifiying
this.
I also think that encoding might be a problem as the loved mirc client
doesn't support unicode.
Hamakor does not have to support mIRC. The rules only require you could
access the discussion using free software only. mIRC is not free, there is
free software that supports unicode, and thus unicode could be used. I guess
the board would specify iso-8859-8 to ensure mIRC users can also
participate.
How would it make sure to keep privacy of the voters?
It won't. It will publish the names of the voters and their votes for the
record. Votes will not be anonymous.
What's the advantage of public voting over private one?
especialy in a vote that doesn't happen in the same time and people can see
what other people are voting.
The voters will not see who voted what way until the voting is over. This
is why we have to two-step voting. Public voting improves accountability and
makes it easier to verify the votes were tallied correctly.
Would it also be on irc?
This is up to the board discretion.
So maybe you should add that votes must happen using an open standard?
What open standard? The voting system has to be accessible to people using
only free software, and its code must be open, the communication is
speicified by the code and thus is also open.
5) Why do we need 2 groups for voting?Isn't one enough? ( I never saw
anything like that anywhere else)
This is to ensure the people close to the operation of the system will not
know the votes of the others during the vote.
How does it prevent them from seeing what happens during the vote?
It doesn't prevent them seeing the votes, but they vote first and thus
can't know almost any votes. When they can see the votes, they can't vote
anymore.
Alon
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