On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: > Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: >> Yes... but why build a complicated membership management structure to do >> that? >> >> There's a reason I'm asking. Keeping track of who is and isn't a "member" >> can turn out to be surprisingly acrimonious and political, and will take >> more overhead to properly manage. >> >> IMHO, there's little reason not to extend some privileges to basically >> whomever asks. Email address? Sure. Logo usage, within clearly >> circumscribed guidelines? Sure! > > Your suggestion resonates well with me. What is the model that existing > organization follow, such as Fedora, Debian, etc.? > >> Voting for the board? Sure! > > I'm not really sure about this. Maybe you need to be involved in the project > for some time until you get a vote. Say, you can have a voting right <some > arbitrary number of months> after your application -during which time you > will have all the above that you mentioned-.
In the latest Fedora board election, we had about 10% of our entire membership vote. It's really easy to get lost in the vagaries of voting, but in my experience, most people just aren't going to be that interested. I mean, what's the fear? That a bunch of M$ employees will storm the membership system, take control of numbers, and vote in a bunch of free software hating stooges? Having a SABDFL can help mitigate this. Give Walter a Big Hammer, with the understanding that he will only use it during the most extreme circumstances. --g _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
