On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 18:35 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Baris Cicek wrote: > > Murray asked on membership-committee list if we should ask to > > prospective members these questions, which are optional to answer: > > gender, to track lack of female involvement; > > nationality, to track lack of Asian involvement; > > I have no problems with these. > > > And one more can be: > > public key, we can encrypt ballots in future. > > But I think that requiring a PGP public key is setting the bar too high > technically for joining the foundation. Most existing members probably > don't have a public key. And public key encryption is non-trivial.
The public key could be optional with an notice such as: "If don't know what it means, don't worry. It won't affect any decision about your membership". Probably with an extra link to get more information if the person is interested. Anyway, it could be solved with a key sign party in Vilanova. -- Germán Poó-Caamaño http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/ Concepción - Chile _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
