> I have, their response is to silence those who speak out.  Or to refuse to
> address the issue.

Would it be possible to bring up specific instances or better still
links to the relevant discussions?  I don't know what place would be
best to continue this discussion, but I assume this thread is OK.  If
you'd rather, you can email me directly.  My interest is mainly to
understand the way things have worked at P2PU better.

> I'm not concerned by their "lack of bureaucratic structure".  I'm concerned
> by their lack of any sort of election process, or any kind of requirement to
> listen to the voice of the contributors.

I personally can't imagine that all problems or disagreements would be
solved by the existence of elections or positions, and I think it
would be more useful to understand the specific disagreements and
problems in their own right.  (Unless the disagreement is purely about
the existence or non-existence of elections/positions/etc.)

At present, the policy is supposed to be based on "rough consensus" -
so if there wasn't a consensus around the issues you brought up, then,
yeah, the discussion was likely to just be over.  I think the only
thing to do in such a case is to go do the relevant work on your own,
or do it somewhere else, or work really hard to win people over, or
just wait.  I don't see it as part of any organisation's
responsibility to do everything that "contributors" say or wish.

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