At 01:29 PM 7/13/99 +0200, you wrote:
>What about a vote for every country involved in this new project. Every
>country will be responsable for the election of its man.
>Spanish, Japanese, Franch, Italian, Netherlands, German, Swiss, etc ... all
>nations one man.
I don't think distributing votes per country is such a good idea. What
countries will be included and which won't? MSXes exist in many countries,
but sometimes only in very small numbers. What if there happens to be
exactly one MSXer in, say, Iceland? Will he/she be given a vote?
And even if you want to distribute votes per country, it would be better to
allow several representatives per country instead of just one, like Laurens
suggested. To make the representation fair, the number of MSXers per
country would have to be estimated. Countries with more MSXers will get
more votes.
But there is also a more fundamental problem with allocating votes per
country. I mean, this is an international MSX cooperation, opinions about
MSX (example: pro/con software emulated parts) are probably more important
than nationality. Some opinions may be culturally influenced (Japanese
generally like small things), but most are personal.
A possible system would be that a group of N voters would be formed, where
N is fixed in advance. Anyone who wants to be a candidate can apply. Then
everyone can vote for a candidate by either e-mail or web form. The N
candidates with the most votes get into the group and vote over all
development issues.
Actually I'm not even sure voting is the best solution, since it will not
just have to be a standard, it will also have to be implemented. If some
group of "wise men" decides upon a standard and no hardware (or software ;)
developer wants to build it, it useless...
Bye,
Maarten
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