Sat, 02 Sep 2017 09:25:20 -0500 Sam Whited <[email protected]> wrote:
> If electing members is mostly pointless, why is it more productive to > only elect members who are active? Good question. I think because they would be more accurate in electing Council? > but if we were to tell them that and then not elect them, we risk > leaving a bitter taste in their mouth. We don't want peoples first > experiences at the XSF to be a bad one. In this case just give membership to whoever asks. That's actually what is happening currently: election always yields to "yes". Regarding the benefits: > Ability to join certain restricted working groups (council, editors) I don't think any kind of membership should be required here. If a person is willing to be in the Council (or much better in Editors), s/he just should apply. As simple as that. > Free dinner for you and a guest at Summits Yeah... > One vote in (rare) important decisions that need to be brought before > the members In the case when we give membership to anyone, we instead can just run free election without any pre-election at all. We can probably use some electing software with simple registration (to avoid cheating, but I don't think there will be any), I bet there are some. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
