> DeRobertis : Scott, if you don't want to put in a
> bunch of controls, that's fine with me. We're only
> trying to protect your software. However, I'm not
> sure if we could get 25% of the group to vote for,
> say, even Alain, Uli, Adrian, or me.
> Scott : I don't really have any idea of how to
> establish what "membership" is other than just
> defining it to me "those people who already have a
> copy of the MC license for OpenCard developers".
Alain : I propose that we distinguish between belonging to mailing list
versus being a full-fledged member of the collaboration. Anyone can
suscribe to the list, but to become a member you have to :
(1) make at least one contribution ;
(2) be nominated by at least one member ;
(3) get the nod from a representative number of members, say 25%;
> Scott : With this approach the first few people
> are going to get one easily because they'll only need
> a few people need to recommend them. It's the later
> ones who will have a harder time, but it seems to me
> this is as it should be.
Alain : This is indeed "as it should be". I am glad to see that you
think so as well.
> DeRobertis : How many people are registered on this
> list... Maybe the listserver will tell me?
> Scott : The "who" command is disabled on the list
> server to thwart address harvesters.
Alain : I was surprised to hear that such a feature existed. Definitely
risky !
> Scott : There are currently 13 people on the regular
> opencard list and 7 on the digest version.
Alain : Stats on the UFP ?
> Scott : But you can't count on all of these people
> because some of them I think are just spies ;-)
Alain : Spies that lurk in the penumbra that forever keep a low
profile, adopt a wait-and-see attitude, and tell everyone "I told you
so" when things stagnate. Or to observe what we are doing so as to
report back to the proprietary-software barons that are trying to
maintain their monopolies by scuttling the open-source movement. The
REAL software is out there ... ;-)
> Scott : Even if you do count them all,
> 25% is just 5 people...
Alain : Exactly. Not a problem. No surveillance bots, no copyright
notices on each page, no splash screens, no highly-unpopular
copyright-protection schemes ... Nothing but a self-regulating
community-based review process based on trust. We couldn't ask for
better.
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